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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 01/20/2015 10:02 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
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   > "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:m9hv2o$ji0$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > 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.   
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   > I hope you will read Ooku.   
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   > 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.   
      
   	So try getting it at your local public library and maybe they   
   can borrow it from the SFPL system.   
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   > 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 you have made a typo in that paragraph above and   
   good fertile men are available for stud service at some expense.   
   In less favored areas men are passed around in communities so that the   
   population can be kept up with enough workers,  But because men   
   are so important they tend to be coddled so they are trying avoid   
   being taken captive by the collectives.  One in the two chapters is   
   a chef but not permitted to work outside the Ooku because of gender   
   discrimination.   
      
   > 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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