Yume Kocho (Shodensha Bunko I 27-6 Wa Shu Boro Tombi Gumi 6)

[Machine Translation] Hanagiku, a courtesan, longed for death. She becomes the highest-ranking oiran in the Yoshiwara Omise, but this is still only a world of suffering. Hoping to reunite with her mother and father on the other side of the river, she placed herself in a burning brothel. But there was a man who jumped into the red flames. Hanagiku has a fateful encounter with Hikoya, a ragged tobigumi master in the midst of the fire. A succession of fires, the murder of a man who was supposed to be a lackey, and the mastermind behind it all...? Gengo Matsunaga, the head fireman of the Shinjo clan, takes up the challenge of solving the mystery in Yoshiwara, a place of whirling passions.

花魁・花菊は死を希った。吉原の大見世で最高位の花魁となるも、やはりここは苦界でしかない。父母と彼岸での再会を望み、燃え盛る妓楼に身を置いた。だが紅蓮の炎に飛び込んできた男がいた。花菊は業火の中、ぼろ鳶組纏番・彦弥と運命の出会いをする―。連続する火付け、下手人と思しき者の殺害、黒幕が?新庄藩火消頭・松永源吾が情念渦巻く吉原で謎に挑む。