Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (GN 2)

Release date: 2017-07-18
Suggested retail price: $12.99
Age rating: 16+

ISBN-10: 1632364700 1632364700
ISBN-13: 9781632364708 9781632364708

Description:
PAST PROMISES
 
After proving himself on stage, Yotaro has been fully accepted as Yakumo's apprentice and a member of his household. But taking in this brash young man forces Yakumo to confront his own past, and the promises left unfulfilled to his late best friend and rival, Sukeroku. Yakumo decides to share a tale that begins not when he was a dignified artist, but an orphan named Bon. Bon's history is also the history of fellow orphan Shin, a changing Japan in the face of war, and a woman named Miyokichi, who would hold the future in her elusive hands...

A multi-generational human drama set in the world of rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese comedic storytelling, Descending Stories follows an ex-convict whose life is changed by his apprenticeship to a famed storyteller, and Konatsu, who yearns to perform rakugo but cannot because women are not permitted in the craft.

(added on 2017-05-10, modified on 2017-05-10)

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