This sets off a chain reaction of events which spells tragedy for the tenge family. Ayako is the youngest daughter of tenge sakuemon, the head of the tenge family that owns a lot of land in tohoku Actually, she is an illicit child between sakuemon and sue, the wife of sakuemon's eldest son by the name of ichiro. Initially set in the aftermath of world war ii, ayako focuses its attention on the tenge clan, a once powerful family of landowners living in a rural community in northern japan. Ayako is a manga by osamu tezuka Crushed by the allied powers, occupied by general macarthur’s armies, japan has been experiencing massive change
Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative tenge family. Created during tezuka’s “dark period”, it was originally serialized in big comic from january 1972 to june 1973. And when the family seems to have completely fallen apart, they decide to turn their collective rage on what they believe to be the source of their troubles—the newest member of the tenge family, the youngest sister ayako.
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