TITLE: Sakura no Mori no Sakura no Yami (“Darkness of Forrest of Cherry Blossom”)
AUTHOR: KIHARA, Toshiye (Toshie)
MY EVALUATION: B(Very Good)
Short but profound. Taste of delicate beauty of Noh plays.
STORY:
It was late 15th Century. Shuka was a leader of a small bandit group in Kyoto, capital of Japan in Muromachi era. Though he had been living a self-indulgent life since he was pushed [...]
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Sakura no Mori no Sakura no Yami
Posted in Historical (Japan), K-, SF/Fantasy, tagged kihara-toshiye, shojo on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
KOSAKA, Tomoko
Posted in Historical (Japan), Historical (other regions), K-, tagged kosaka-tomoko, manga, shojo on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started reading Kosaka’s works very recently. Finished so far are “T.E. Rorensu (T.E. Lawrence)” and “Awo no Maharaja (Maharaja of the Blue Stone)”, as well as first volumes of “Hana-bana no Utagoye (Songs of Flowers)” and “Bengara Goshi no Iye (A House with Red Grilles)”, and all of them are real gems.
Although Kosaka established [...]
Nante Sutekini Japanesuku (How Wonderfully Japanesque!)
Posted in Comedy, Historical (Japan), Y-, tagged manga, shojo, yamamoto-naomi on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Title: Nante Sutekini Japanesuku (How Wonderfully Japanesque!)
Authors: HIMURO, Saeko (original novel). YAMAMOTO, Naomi (comicalization).
Data: First Published in 198x by Hakusensha. Now available in Hakusensha Bunko series.
My Evaluation: A (Excellent)
The leading character of this romantic comedy with some detective story flavor is a princess in the Heian era (794-1191 AD), when the Japanese aristocratic culture was [...]
Hi no Matsuei (Daughters of the Sun)
Posted in Historical (Japan), I-, tagged ichikawa-jun, manga, shojo on April 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
TITLE: Hi no Matsuei (Daughters of the Sun)
AUTHOR:Ichikawa, Jun
WHY GOOD: This is a very rare, feminism comic story. The tile is inspired by the word of a famous Japanese feminist in Meiji era, Hiratsuka Raicho, who said, “At first in the human history, the woman was the sun to shine by itself and shine the [...]
