Ryu Komagata is a junior high school student who has a father who runs an outlandish betting Shogi parlor called "Serious Master" for a living. One day, Keisuke Torafura, a betting Shogi player who had turned his father's fate upside down, appears on the scene. In order to stop his father from challenging him to a fight that would plunge the family to the bottom again if he loses, Ryu challenges his father to a serious game of Shogi, a game he has always hated... This is a legendary Shogi manga that many professional players, including Zenji Hanyu, aspired to become professionals after reading this work! (from ebookjapan)

It's been two years since I moved to this village. I used to live in Tokyo, but then all of a sudden my dad decided he wanted to be a farmer in the country! Join me on this close-up look at the problems of modern farmers and people who decide to live alongside nature! From Manga Helpers

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between the old and the new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion. (Source: Random House)

Matagi (traditional winter hunters of the Touhoku region of northern Japan) hunted animals deep in the Ou Mountains. They used ancestral methods to hunt down bears. One of the Matagi men is Sanshiro.