Tsuge Yoshiharu Taizen

Tsuge's debut work based on the Shourui Awaremi no Rei, an edict which existed in the early days of the Edo period during the reign of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. It depicts the exploits of a mysterious messenger, Hakumen Yasha, who saves people suffering due to the evil law. (Source: Kodansha, translated and edited) Note: Includes a prologue.

The story of a swordsman who goes to great pains to avenge the death of his teacher. (Source: Kodansha, translated)

A grisly tale of a crematorium worker who burned his coworker alive in the furnace, later confessing in a letter to a boy who was accidentally given some of the wrong remains.

A detective seeks to regain his memory to locate the crook he inadvertently left to die in the mountains.

The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. (Source: New York Review Books)