The Mysterious Beauty of the Universe:
A Novel of Yūgen
Todd Shimoda
Art by LJC Shimoda
On sale March 15 2027
Presale available soon
$37.00 Hardback (978-1-956358-11-7)
$15.00 Ebook (978-1-956358-12-4)
248 pages 6 in by 9 in
Purchase at Shimodaworks online store
Coming soon
Zack Hara, who escaped a tragic ending in the novel
Oh! A mystery of mono no aware while trying to find an emotional life, works in Tokyo as a translator while struggling with his newly found chaos of emotions. He's drawn into the worlds of neo-punk bands, the phenomenon of jouhatsu (human "evaporation") and a scientist obsessed with answering the ultimate question of why we exist by researching flower pigments and yūgen - the mysterious beauty of the universe.
