The novel “The Citadel” stuns with its professional historical accuracy, almost cruel eroticism, passionate feminism, classical sophistication of style and c...

For the ladies of the poetry circle, Mieko Togano is a wise mentor, for critics she is the publisher of a literary magazine and a talented poetess, for every...

The trust of the powerful official Yukitomo Shirakawa in Tomo's wife is limitless. But her husband’s request to choose a concubine for him deeply wounds her ...