Zan (The Executioner) Kenjo Tsunabuchi Kawade Shobo Shinsha Hardcover Showa Era, Used Book The anguish and inner conflict of a family whose profession was beheading. Known throughout the land by the alias "Asaemon the Head Cutter," the Yamada family, who continued to behead criminals, met their end not only by falling behind in the Meiji Restoration, but also by the dark eruption of blood that stirred within their closed-off family, who took the gall of people to sell as medicine and had been cutting up corpses. In a world where beheading was abolished, how were the Yamada family members supposed to live? This long novel, which won the 67th Naoki Prize, used abundant materials to powerfully depict the flow of the times and was highly praised for "opening up a new realm in historical fiction." *Due to long-term home storage, there is some deterioration.