num_pages: 224
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 14: Demon Mask
titlecomplete: Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 14: Demon Mask  (Usagi Yojimbo, #14)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Graphic Novels, Manga, Japan, Historical Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy
ratings_count: 615
series: Usagi Yojimbo
publisher: Dark Horse