This is Eiji Yoshikawa's final work, vividly portraying each of the main characters with a light touch. This complete set of four volumes of Yoshikawa Eiji's historical novel series, Shin Suikoden (New Water Margin), features beautiful illustrations in each volume and depicts a diverse cast of characters. In the Song Dynasty of China, Hong Xin, dispatched as an imperial envoy to Longhu Mountain, dug into a strictly forbidden stone cave, causing the 108 demon stars sealed within to burst forth onto the earth. Eventually, each of these stars transformed into humans, forming Liangshan Marsh and shaking the world. This is the beginning of the Chinese epic novel, "Water Margin." "Shin Suikoden" is a grand epic in which the author, who was familiar with this Chinese classic from his youth, freely reinterprets and recreates the world of this extraordinary book. Offered for sale due to a library clear-out.