Ei Mo Sezu Kikaku to Ichi Cho (Kobunsha Bunkota 46-1 Kobunsha Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Matsuo Basho's most famous disciple, the haikai poet Takarai Kikaku, who did not fit in with the haikai school, and the bold and open-minded painter Taga Asako (later Eiichicho). The two were strangely compatible. One night in Yoshiwara, they are summoned by two tayu. They were told that a dog painted on a folding screen moved and that prostitutes who saw it disappeared one after another. Asked to solve the mystery, the two men scramble to save the women... A masterpiece of historical fiction that depicts the way of life and pathos of the people of Edo!

松尾芭蕉の一番弟子ながら、一門に馴染めない俳諧師・宝井其角と、豪放磊落な絵師・多賀朝湖(後の英一蝶)。二人は不思議と馬が合った。ある夜、吉原で、彼らは二人の太夫に呼び出される。屏風に描かれた犬が動き、それを見た遊女が次々と姿を消したという。謎解きを頼まれた二人は女たちを救うべく奔走するが...。江戸の人々の生き様、哀切を描く傑作時代小説!