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   From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:m9hv2o$ji0$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   Hi Lurkers and Posters.   
   I got lucky at the San Francisco Public Library and found volumes 8 & 9   
   of Ooku (already owning volumes 1-7) and was able to   
   catch up this weekend.   
   It starts to get good in volume 8 and begins to turn on   
   Dutch Medicine versus the traditional doctors and relegated heirs   
   to the Shogun begin to intrigue against the Shogun, her primary   
   councilor and a woman scholar as well as the half-Dutch commoner   
   scholar who has been brought into the Ooku to help teach Dutch   
   medicine to the male inmates.   
   The objective of the study is to find a way to deal with   
   the deadly Red Face Plague and it is exciting to read.   
      
   I hope you will read Ooku.   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
      
   I have read the first volume in Japanese but haven't had the chance to get   
   caught up with the series.  It's an alternative history book of feudal Japan   
   where men died off and became rare and women took on almost all occupation   
   including running the country as shogun.   
      
   Most women cannot even meet a woman so they could get impregnated while   
   Oo-oku/ Shogun has many men essentially serving as her male concubines.   
      
   I believe the same artist did a foodie manga Kinou Nani Tabeta (What Did You   
   Have for Dinner Last Night) among a gay couple.   
      
   bliss   
      
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