Indigo Street

Created and Curated by Ken Holm

Kyoto, 1712. Your uncle, an indigo merchant from Awa, sends you up the river to collect a debt from Tahei, an old dyer on Indigo Street who has not paid in three years. You have until the end of summer. Then Tahei offers you a deal: help him finish one impossible commission, forty-eight shades of blue for the most famous actor in Kyoto, and he will pay every coin.

historical dramaNewLong read

~196–199 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 6.3M paths

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