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The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記 Jūni Kokuki also known as Record of 12 Countries or Juuni Kokki a common alternate reading) is a Japanese series of light novels written by Fuyumi Ono and illustrated by Akihiro Yamada. The first entry in the series (The Shadow of the Moon The Sea of Shadow) was published by Kodansha in Japan in 1992; the last Kodansha volume was released in 2001. In 2012 the series was resumed under the Shinchō Bunko line from Shinchosha.