Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales
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Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales (白姫抄 Shirahimeshō?) is a one volume anthology of three short stories by Japanese artistic group, Clamp.
The stories all revolve around the Yuki-onna, the Snow Goddess, whose tears supposedly cause snow to fall. Shirahime, directly translated, means white princess, while Yuki-onna, a figure in Japanese mythology appearing the in myth of Minokichi the woodcutter, literally means snow woman.
Shirahime-Syo is a departure from the usual Clamp style of drawing and follows a more traditional artistic form and use of watercolours. As a result, the manga is considered one of Clamp's most beautiful and visually ambitious works.
Originally published in Japan by Kodansha in 1992 and later in Asuka in 2001, it has been licenced and translated into English by Tokyopop.
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- Garō no Yama (Mountain of the Fanged Wolf): Fubuki, a young girl, befriends a spirit wolf who has saved her from a pack of dogs. Complications ensue between the girl's mother and her newfound friend.
- Kōri no Hana (Flower of Ice): A man leaves his lover, Kaya, waiting by an ice-cold lake. He returns years later, believing she will have found someone else and grown old, only to find her unchanged from the day he left her.
- Hiyoku no Tori (The Happy Couple): A soldier loses his way on a snowy mountainside while returning home to his fiancée. In his frustration, he shoots down two herons only to discover upon his eventual return home that the herons had been guiding him.
