oku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 16 by Fumi Yoshinaga - 9781974708406

Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc

oku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 16Author(s): Fumi Yoshinaga\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc, United States\nImprint: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc\nISBN-13: 9781974708406, 978-1974708406\nSynopsis\nIn Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinagas alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of powerincluding the shoguns seat!\n\nIn Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...\n\nYoung Iemochis new consort harbors a secret so scandalous that the shogunate must become involved in the deception or risk a further er.