The time is 1939, year 14 of the Showa period. Single-handedly raised by a former geisha in the Yanagibashi district of Tokyo, Takechiyo Morimasa is an energetic, straight shooting 4th year intermediate school student who loves the big city life and his beautiful mother. However, due to a family death, he is suddenly forced to move to a very rural, backwards region of Japan in order to take over the Aoba family line. What awaits him there is a school full of extremely eccentric characters who operate as if they were still in the Edo period. It seems the only way he can save himself is to create a successful baseball team...??

Mari, a young Spanish flamenco dancer who lost her mother at a young age, meets aspiring Japanese photographer Ikushima Reki. They are strongly drawn to each other, but their meeting is fleeting since Reki must return home at the end of the week. On the day they say good-bye, a tragic accident occurs and Mari must make a difficult decision that may change everything about her life...

During the Edo period, not all samurai were considered wealthy, high class war heroes who answered directly to the shogun. In fact, many of them were of low rank and remained nameless throughout their careers while living economically with their small families just to make ends meet. Nakamura Hanshirou and Yukie with their baby son Tarou is one such family, and through their lives, Yamato Waki offers eye-opening glimpses of the less talked about aspects of living in Japan's capital during this famous era. Note: Vol. 2 contains a 3-chapter long side story titled "Aoba Shigereru" that involve the same set of main characters.

Yoshida Tamako was the youngest of 11 children. When she turned 3, she was taken to the Gion district of Kyoto by the Okami of a traditional Maiko/Geiko house. It is there that Tamako changes her name to Sakiko and begins her long journey to become one of the top maiko in Gion history, "Sakuya". Another wonderful work by Yamato Waki-sensei that details the beauty of Kyoto and traditional Japan and let's us also see into the often secret world of Kyoto's maikos and geikos.

Yuri is a busy girl. Aside from studying, she also has to work as a model. This requires her to skip classes. Her parent are dead and her only brother has gone missing in Central Asia. One day she gets a phone call from the immigration bureau about her brother - they need Yuri's confirmation if this man is Yuri's brother or not.

Konohana Shino lives in the Meiji era of Japan. As her father's only child, she was raised like a man. Now a young woman, Shino has top grades in school and is the top fighter in the dojo. But one day, her little brother is born, and her father decides that it's time for her to be a woman. He insists she quit school and the dojo, dress in the confining clothes of a woman, and marry a guy she has no interest in. Shino has no idea how to deal with this unexpected and unwelcome twist in her life, until she happens across the foreigner Daniel Irving. After she saves him from thugs, he tells her about all the opportunities for women in New York. Determined to find a better life, Shino runs away from home and stows away aboard a foreign ship. Two things don't go according to plan-- Daniel is aboard the ship as well, and it's going to Hokkaido, not the US. Even so, this can still be the beginning of a new life for Shino, one that includes a lot of Daniel. But even if she finds that she loves Daniel, this era is not an easy one for marrying foreigners... (Source: MangaHelpers)

In ancient Japan, in the land of Asuka, there lived a famous female poet/seer named Nukata no Ookimi. Since she was young, her beauty and intelligence attracted many, but she vowed that she would never marry b/c she believed her role in life was to serve as a priestess to the imperial family. Will the attention of two powerful princes cause her to reconsider or will she stay steadfast to her original wish to be a woman independent of the mortal desires of life?

A Sengoku-era romance about the historical artist, noblewoman and teacher Ono Otsū 小野お通 by Yamato Waki, author of the famous illustrated Tale of Genji.

The story centers around a girl named Natasha during the war in Japan. She is a half-European and half-Japanese. She has incredible voice and excels at singing. Moreover, she is also the long-lost daughter of the Japanese baron, who sent an extremely talented musician, Kaoru Sanjou, to find Natasha in Shanghai. These two fell madly in love and went through many obstacles during the feudal war in order to be together. A great story about love, passion, hatred and war.

This volume contains two short works by Yamato Waki-sensei. Haru wa Akebono Satsujin Jiken (orig. published in 1991 but collected for the first time in this volume): During the Heian era, Emperor Ichijo and his Empress Chuuguu Teishi's quiet romance faces trouble as rival political families seek to gain more influence in the court. When a couple of dead bodies are discovered and rumors of an oni abound, the palace's most intelligent female, Seishou Nagon, begins to investigate... Lady Mitsuko: This story was also published as its own tankoubon in 1977 , the summary of which can be found here: [https://myanimelist.net/manga.php?id=17830](https://myanimelist.net/manga.php?id=17830)

10 years ago, Nakahara Asami's parents died in a car accident, leaving her an orphan. Ever since then, a mysterious guardian named "Ashinaga Ojisan" ("Daddy Long-Legs") has taken care of her education and finances on the condition that she work hard at school to become a doctor like her parents and that she never ask about his identity. This year, she is starting her first year at medical school. While adjusting to her new and separate life from her boyfriend Katsumi, she meets classmate Moritsugu Shun and a handsome new professor named Hayasaka Tasuku, who both seem to have secrets of their own. What experiences await her and will she ever find out who her Ashinaga Ojisan is?

Hokkaido, Sapporo. High school student Ruka is living her life in bliss in the house of lilac. Even though they didn't share their mother, Ruka had a beautiful older sister, as well as a lovely younger sister. They lived with their strict but loving mother and their gentle father, whom they all loved dearly. One day a young boy named Shion transfers to Ruka's school. For some unknown reason, he views Ruka as his sworn enemy. However, along with solving the riddle of his behavior, Ruka's life begins to turn for the worst... *Note: Volume 3 includes the one-shots Hana-gatami (花がたみ), Peter Brown no Fushigi na Bouken (ピーターブラウン不思議な冒険)*