Hanaori - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 2008 - 2010

In the Edo period, when a son is born to a samurai family, he becomes the successor to the house. But what of the other sons? Kikinosuke Fujimi is one of these men, and as another son of the Fujimi family, he has no lofty aspirations of ruling the household. So what's a guy to do but be unemployed and gamble the day away? Along with friends such as Uta and Jyuuzou, he'll live out an eventful life in feudal Japan.

• Vol: 1
• 1989

• Vol: 7; Ch: 34
• 2010 - 2013

In the year 1589, the Tokugawa clan is looking for a way to destroy Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi depends on the resourceful, intelligent samurai Sanada Yukimura to help him protect his people and foil the plots of his enemies. He also assigns the loud-mouthed, impetuous shinobi Sarutobi Sasuke to work with Sanada -- to their mutual annoyance. Though each disapproves of the other's approach to crime-fighting, they begrudgingly agree to work together for Hideyoshi's sake.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 2
• 1961

In medieval Japan, the feudal lord Nobuhira reigns as an authentic tyrant over his domain, carrying out all kinds of abuses on the peasants. He kills some for fun, to test the effectiveness of his sword blade and to generate a climate of terror that drives other farmers into blind obedience. These, increasingly reduced to starvation, are forced to pay higher and higher taxes in rice, extorted from them through coercive methods, the kidnapping of women or the taking of hostages but all their attempts to revolt are suffocated in blood in the bud.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 37
• 2009 - 2012

To control his daimyo lords, the shogun orders them to move back and forth from their provincial home and the capital, where they must spend half their time. The story follows the long journeys of the daimyo Kumada's family between the family's Okayama home in southwestern Japan and their second home in the capital. 

• Vol: 4; Ch: 31
• 1978

Shumari is an Ainu who has taken the name of a man he accidentally killed in order to track down his wife and recover her from the man who kidnapped her in feudal Japan.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 86
• 1983 - 1984

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2005

• Vol: 6; Ch: 50
• 2014 - 2016

Set in the late Edo period. Ichizou, a hired thief taker, cooperates in the investigation of the incident in which one of Fukagawa's prostitutes has been killed. While pursuing the unfamiliar decorations given to the victim's nails, Ichizou comes across a mysterious scroll painter, Matsunojou, who uses Yoshiwara as his headquarters.

• One Shot
• 1983