Fumi Yoshinaga

In this seventeenth century Japan the Shogun is a woman...and the harem is full of men.In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the …

Gyokuei, who first arrived at the Inner Chambers as a young novitiate monk, has risen to become one of the shogun Tsunayoshi's advisors. He hopes to protect the shogunate the same way his mentor Arikoto once did. But the numerous intrigues of the Inner Chambers—and the shogun herself—are pushing Gyokuei's patience and …

Truly Kindly is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. Biblos released the manga on March 1997. It is licensed and published in North America by Blu on August 14, 2007.