Cover of The Leopard Mask

The Leopard Mask

core novel 1979 Guin Saga

Record

First published1979
Original language JA
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.55 (380 ratings, collected 2026-08-30)
Page count231
First-edition ISBN9781932234510
Internal chronology1

Where it sits

  • Universe: Guin Saga
  • Series: The Guin Saga (English-translated volumes) core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
  • Author: Kaoru Kurimoto

Notes

  • From the series record (The Guin Saga (English-translated volumes)): The four confirmed English-translated volumes of Kaoru Kurimoto's Japanese-language Guin Saga (Vertical Inc., translated by Alexander O. Smith). A fifth title once catalogued here ('The Wind Sword's Shadow') was removed as unresolvable after thorough research found no matching real Guin Saga volume, English or Japanese. The full Japanese-language saga (130 volumes by Kurimoto herself before her 2009 death, plus further volumes by other authors) runs far beyond this Core Canon; the untranslated remainder is a documented future research lead, not part of this admission.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

  • Reading order, within the series The Guin Saga (English-translated volumes): position 1 of 4: next The Marches King (1979)

Sources

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