In his discussion of Ooku, Suat argued that the book was a failure because it did not accurately reflect gender relations in historical Japan. Specifically, Suat felt that, were some significant percentage of the male population of Tokugawa-era Japan to die of illness, women would not move into positions of prominence, and certainly would not [...]
Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku is set in an alternate Edo period Japan where the male population has been halved by an epidemic known as the Redpox with the women taking the majority of male societal roles as a result. Noah has a short synopsis and glowing review of the first volume at the previous HU site [...]
Somewhat uncharacteristically, I’m actually reading a book that’s up to the minute. There are a bunch of reviews of Fumi Yoshinaga’s highly acclaimed Ooku out at the moment. One I looked at today is by Kate Dacey I’ll be honest: I’m not quite sold on Ooku yet. For all its dramatic and socio-political ambitions, volume [...]
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