In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country\'s men.
Yoshinaga has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for oku, the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for her series Ant.
About the Author: Fumi Yoshinaga is a Tokyo-born manga creator who debuted in 1994 with Tsuki to Sandaru (The Moon and the Sandals).
But while his mother sees him as nothing but a mindless stud horse, Ienari has been reading The Chronicle of a Dying Day and dreaming of a better future for his country--one free of his mother\'s increasingly cruel control.
Tokugawa Harusada connived for years to place her son in the shogun\'s seat, and now she\'s enjoying holding all the reins of power while Ienari is relegated to breeding duties.
And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun\'s Inner Chamber...
The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected.
Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun.
Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent.
In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country\'s men
