Saiiri Otogigusa — Nanboku Tsuruya Novelization Project 04

The fourth volume of the Nanboku Tsuruya Novelization Project is finally a ghost-story play, the very genre Nanboku excelled at. Set in Edo and based on two tales that were well known at the time — the undying uncanny “Ki wa Kohiraji” and the plate-counting ghost “Banshū Sarayashiki” — each serves as the basis for a murder case that the young Kikugorō III and Danjūrō VII solve with the aid of ghosts. The original ghost stories that inspired the pieces are also included as short stories, with commentary.