The Shore in Twilight
core novel 2001 The Twelve Kingdoms
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  JA |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.14 (105 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 448 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9784101240619 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Twelve Kingdoms
- Series: The Twelve Kingdoms Novels core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Fuyumi Ono
Notes
- Publication year corrected 2026-09-03 from 1994 to 2001 (confirmed against English Wikipedia's Twelve Kingdoms novel list and the Japanese publisher's own listing; the DB previously had this swapped with A Thousand Leagues of Wind's year). Originally published in 2 volumes (上/下); ISBN recorded is the Shinchosha single-volume combined edition.
- 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 4 of 5: previous A Thousand Leagues of Wind (1994) · next Dreaming of Paradise (2001)
- Internal chronology, within The Twelve Kingdoms: position 3 of 5: previous Sea of Wind (1993) · next A Thousand Leagues of Wind (1994)
Sources
← The Twelve Kingdoms dossier · All universes
One of 3732 works in the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.