As a child, Princess Taira Chiyo escaped from being captured by the Minamoto army due to the sacrifice of her mother. Now at the age of 15, she travels the land searching for immortality. Following the rumors about an immortal named Kijin-sama, Chiyo ac

Ayakashi are dead and unclean. They are an impure existence that corrode the land and sometimes give birth to monsters. This is a story of an ayakashi mortician who exorcises the defilement and observes the death of the deformed.

This is one of the best-known titles by Yamagishi Ryouko. It shocked the public immensely when first published, because the story depicted how the legendary regent of Japan, Prince Shoutoku - who supported the spread of Buddhism - fell in love with a man,

The peasant Hanbē asks a girl named O-haru for her hand in marriage, but O-haru confesses that she is already thinking of another man named Masakichi from a neighboring village. When Hanbē seeks out Masakichi, he finds that Masakichi possesses a sword a