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The legend of Kamui. Volume 1 / story and art by Sanpei Shirato ; translated by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger ; additional translation by Alexa Frank.
Van Pelt Library PN6790.J33 S54513 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shirato, Sanpei, 1932-2021
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--17th century--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Ninja--Fiction.
- Ninja.
- Samurai--Fiction.
- Samurai.
- Genre:
- Manga.
- Graphic novels.
- Physical Description:
- 604 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [2025]
- Other Title:
- Legend of Kamui. 1
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : Drawn & Quarterly, 2025.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Summary:
- "The iconic series that launched the alt-manga bible GARO becomes available in English for the very first time. At long last, manga titan Shirato Sanpei's groundbreaking epic makes its way into English. Celebrated as a watershed of both the Japanese counterculture and dramatic, longform storytelling in manga, The Legend of Kamui serves up clashing swords and class struggle to create a timeless political allegory set in feudal Japan. This ten-volume series is a must-have for fans of samurai and ninja manga and anime, and of other giants of postwar manga like Tezuka Osamu, Mizuki Shigeru, Tsuge Yoshiharu, and Lone Wolf and Cub's Kojima Goseki. It's the 17th century in Japan. Child outcast Kamui lives on the fringes of a miserably stratified society. Fueled by pure grit, rage, and a dash of cunning, his only way out is to take up the mantle of ninja. Follow scrappy peasants, cold-blooded ninja, and disgraced and exalted warriors as they navigate the unforgiving hardships of a violent yet hopeful age. With its vivid and critical attention to social injustice and environmental issues against a backdrop of heart-pounding action and romance, this multilayered gekiga drama not only redefined ninja and samurai fantasy, it also offers astonishing parallels with the modern day. Originally serialized between 1964 and 1971 in the legendary alt-manga magazine GARO, The Legend of Kamui is translated by social historian and decorated academic Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Volume one [no special title]
- Notes:
- Pages ordered from right to left.
- ISBN:
- 9781770467293
- 1770467297
- OCLC:
- 1484337961
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