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Format:
Book
Title:
The Usagi Yojimbo saga. Book 5
Uniform Title:
Graphic novels. Selections
ISBN:
9781616556136

9781616559182
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2015.
Physical Description:
585 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
General Note:
"This volume collects "Cooking Lesson" from the Central Reproductions Ltd. anthology Drawing the Line, issues #76-#94 of the Dark Horse comic book series Usagi Yojimbo volume three, and "The Doors" and "Fox Fire" from issues #2 and #3 of the Fantagraphics comic book series Usagi Yojimbo Color Special. "Tomoe's Story", first published in issue #1 of Fantagraphics' Usagi Yojimbo Color Special, was entirely redrawn for the Tomoe's Story collection"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Cast of characters -- Glimpses of death. Introduction / by Frederick L. Schodt ; Cooking lesson ; Contraband ; After the rat ; Samurai for hire ; Dreams and nightmares ; Gen and the dog ; When rabbits fly ; Into the mist ; Nocturnal ; Vendetta's end -- The mother of mountains. Introduction / by John Landis ; The treasure of the mother of mountains -- Tomoe's story. Introduction / by Heidi MacDonald ; Tomoe's story ; The doors ; Fox fire ; The ghost in the well ; The thief and the lotus scroll ; Chanoyu ; Remnants of the dead -- Story notes -- Gallery -- Tomoe's original story -- Usagi's twentieth anniversary -- Pinups.
Summary:
In feudal Japan rabbit ronin Miyamoto Usagi shares adventures with several returning friends, including Inspector Ishida, sneak thief Kitsune, bounty hunters Gen and Stray Dog, and retainer Tomoe Ame.
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