Eizen Karukaya Kai Tan Sono 2 (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Takaki's parents and younger brother have passed away, and he has returned to his parents' house, a machiya (townhouse) in an old town that used to be a flower district. When he shifts the mirror propped up on the bookshelf in the room he has designated as his study, he sees a fragile figure in a kimono sitting with a shamisen like a geiko behind the deep gap between the pillar and the wall.... ("Fuyo no Imawi"). As dusk falls, a hakama-clad demon standing at the back door grabs Sayo by the shoulders as she tries to escape ("Sekimori"). (Sekimori). These six ghost stories are filled with the atmosphere of the castle town.

両親と弟が鬼籍に入り、かつて花街だったという古い町並みにある町屋の実家に戻ってきた貴樹。彼が書斎として定めた部屋の書棚に立てかけられた鏡をずらしてみると、柱と壁の深い隙間の向こうに芸妓のような三味線を抱えて坐る儚げな着物姿の人影が見えた...(「芙蓉忌」)。夕暮れの闇が迫る中、背戸に立つ袴を着た鬼が、逃げようとする佐代の肩を掴み―(「関守」)。城下町の情緒が漂う怪談、全6篇。