SEIMEI VOL.02

Seventeen tales of Abe no Seimei at the height of his power — the great diviner of the Heian court, the rival who would not yield, and the legends that continued after his death.

The boy of Abeno has won his name. What follows is the half of the legend that darkens: a rivalry that moves from the debate hall into fires, accusations, and midnight altars — and then the stranger half, in which the man is gone but the stories refuse to stop.

A white dog bars a powerful minister from a forbidden gate. A rite exchanges one life for another. A snake waits inside a melon. Fifteen oranges emerge from a chest as mice. The volume ends on the night an emperor secretly leaves his palace — and the diviner’s abandoned house announces the news before anyone else can.