Usagi Yojimbo Volume 14: Demon Mask

by SAKAI, STANSAKAI, STAN

• ISBN13: 9781569715239
• ISBN10: 1569715238
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-03-27
• Publisher: Dark Horse Books

Summary

The close of 16th century Japan was a violent age, as rival feudal lords fought for land and power. Miyamoto Usagi braved many a battle only to lose his lord and find himself a masterless samurai, or ronin. While many ronin became bandits or mercenaries, Usagi chose the warrior pilgrimage: wandering the land, fighting injustice, seeking enlightenment. Eisner Award winner Stan Sakai has crafted a truly original and delightful work, an all-ages adventure epic that creates a world of excitement, mystery, and imagination, while building each story on painstaking research of Japan's history, culture, and mythology. Demon Mask is a collection of diverse Usagi stories, featuring a graveyard encounter with creatures from Japanese folktales, a whodunit clash with a mysterious masked assassin, a young adventure-lover insistent on receiving Usagi's sword training, a peasant village terrorized by a ravaging Spider Woman, and more. Few works of graphic fiction offer -- or deliver -- as much action, depth, and sheer fun as Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo.

Table of Contents

The Inn on Moon Shadow Hill	7	(24)
A Life of Mush	31	(13)
Deserters	44	(11)
A Potter's Tale	55	(16)
The Missive	71	(8)
The Mystery of the Demon Mask	79	(72)
Kumo	151	(24)
Reunion	175	(24)
Death and Taxes	199	(8)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tournament	207	(8)
Netsuke	215	(3)
The Leaping Ninja	218	(1)
Tsuru	219	(4)
Story Notes	223