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THE SHORE OF THE NETHERWORLD · 2026
The Tai Arc And The New Books · The Birds of Hisho to The Shore of the Netherworld
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THE SHORE OF THE NETHERWORLD · 2026 — from The Tai Arc And The New Books (The Birds of Hisho to The Shore of the Netherworld) in the Twelve Kingdoms Novel Gallery: Akihiro Yamada’s Covers gallery. What you are looking at: THE SHORE OF THE NETHERWORLD · 2026.
The newest painting in the line: a girl reaching for a blue bird, thirty-five years after the first cover.
Shown here at its verified native size, 204×290 — the largest honest scan the Library holds for this cover.
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