A Thousand Leagues of Wind
core novel 1994 The Twelve Kingdoms
Record
| First published | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  JA |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.49 (1,018 ratings, collected 2026-09-07) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9784101240565 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Twelve Kingdoms
- Series: The Twelve Kingdoms Novels core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Fuyumi Ono
Notes
- Also published in English translation as "Skies of Dawn" (Tokyopop's official print edition) -- a separate translator's rendering of the same Japanese novel, previously catalogued here as a distinct entry and merged into this one after confirming the two were the same source work. Publication year corrected 2026-09-03 from 2001 to 1994 (confirmed against English Wikipedia's Twelve Kingdoms novel list and the Japanese publisher's own listing; the DB previously had this swapped with The Shore in Twilight's year). Originally published in 2 volumes (上/下); ISBN recorded is for volume 1.
- From the series record (The Twelve Kingdoms Novels): Fuyumi Ono's ongoing Japanese-language high fantasy sequence, originally published as prose novels (1992-2019, still ongoing); an anime adaptation exists but is not the source medium. A sixth title once catalogued here, "The Book of the Blue Phoenix," was removed 2026-08-31: no real Twelve Kingdoms volume under this or any similar title exists in the series' actual bibliography, English or Japanese.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Twelve Kingdoms Novels: position 3 of 5: previous Sea of Wind (1993) · next The Shore in Twilight (2001)
- Internal chronology, within The Twelve Kingdoms: position 4 of 5: previous The Shore in Twilight (2001) · next Dreaming of Paradise (2001)
Sources
← The Twelve Kingdoms dossier · All universes
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