Natsu No Okibi First Volumes

[Machine Translation] Yoshimi Taeemon, an archer of the Kishu domain, was reprimanded by Tokugawa Yorinobu, the first lord of the domain, for his repeated failures to make a large number of arrows at Sanjusangendo in Kyoto. What he had been coiled about for a long time was the fact that he had erased the "evidence" of Yui Masayuki's life. The pride and righteousness of Hoshino Kanzaemon, an archer who fights for the honor of the Owari clan and the bamboo grove in Bishu. And, a beautiful young genius archer, Sonemon Kasai, who is a favorite pupil of Kanzaemon, is finally ready to take on the great number of arrows.

紀州藩士・弓術家吉見台右衛門は、度重なる京「三十三間堂」での大矢数の失敗により、初代藩主徳川頼宣より叱責を受ける。彼がずっと蟠っていたのは、由井正雪の生きた「証拠」を抹殺した事であった。尾張藩と尾州竹林の名誉を懸けて戦う弓術家星野勘左衛門の矜持と義。そして台右衛門の愛弟子、若き美形の天才弓術家葛西薗右衛門がいよいよ満を持して大矢数に臨む。