Alchemists and onmyoji. Both have existed for millennia—mages who lend their services to the powers that be, and work on cases that cannot be solved by natural means. And on the Japanese Archipelago, their spheres overlap. While Japan has its traditional Bureau of Onmyo, Satsuma, a Catholic count...

In the age of the gods, even mortal men sometimes seem worlds apart. At the dawn of Japanese civilization, a time remembered now only in myth and song, the western island of Tsukushi is divided between three peoples: the Yamato, mighty conquerors and city-builders who settle in the north; the ...