Blood and Ink - Softcover

MacLeod, Kate

 
9781946552099: Blood and Ink

Synopsis

Sequestered behind screens, shielded from the world, Shiori hates the life of a noblewoman in Heian-Kyo.She endlessly paints the mountain home she misses. She longs to convey all, the sights and sounds and even the smells.Then she finds a most evocative technique, one that costs her dear.A short story from the ornately structured world of tenth century Japan about an unusually committed artist.

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