[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: Will his brush bring hope or ruin?
Despite his talent, Utsumi Sokei continues to paint ghost paintings that do not sell.
When he is hungry, he decides to make a forgery for the one and only time he has.
The carefully depicted process of forgery and the tense trading scenes are a must-see!
Set in Tokyo in the early Showa period, Hiromi Kurokawa depicts art x crime.
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Yumi Kurokawa
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Kurokawa won the HARUT...
Intriguing start to a new series
I really enjoyed this first volume of 贋; yet again Harta series continue to impress.
In this volume we meet our three main characters: 馨 (かおる), a young (probably late-20s, early-30s) artist living with two young girls, 撫子 (なでしこ) and 杏子 (あんず). Their landlord is about to throw them out, as the rent hasn't been paid in months and the only responsible adult, 撫子's mother, has been travelling with her performing troupe for some time now. (How responsible she really is is left to the reader for this