Path Of The Assassin, Vol. 6 (v. 6)
Ieyasu, who will found the Tokugawa Shogunate, is awaiting the return of his personal ninja, Hanzo, who exiled himself after offending, albeit unavoidably, Ieyasu's wife, when he makes a could-be-disastrous mistake by attempting to collect rice from Buddhist-monk vassals belonging to a sect that spurns feudal obligations. He provokes an uprising that may be taken advantage of by his rivals. Even before returning, Hanzo learns of the situation and, with his ninja wife, begins the tense series of subterfuges and impersonations that fills the seventh volume of Koike and Kojima's masterful, gorgeous historical manga, several passages of which are so involving that they're virtually audible. Olson, Ray