Tsurutsuru Ayu Somen Izakaya Zenya (Haru Ki Bunko Sa 19-7 Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Edo is bustling with the Sanno Festival. The regular customers of Zenya, a tavern in Kanda Hanabusa-cho, are also excited about the festival in the blazing heat. Tadajiro, a samurai who is forbidden to leave the house, is checking on a nightingale he is raising in his mansion when his nephew, Otomatsu, comes down with a high fever. On his way home, he stops by Zenya, where the proprietress, Onmyou, laughs at his disguise, but hands him something that is "good when you have no appetite. Meanwhile, Omyou revives memories of her late husband Zensuke in her dream. This is the fifth volume of a delicious masterpiece of humanistic fiction, filled with the wisdom of seasonal plants and ingredients that are good for the body.

山王祭に賑わう江戸。神田花房町の居酒屋「ぜんや」の常連客たちも、炎暑のなか祭りに心を躍らせていた。出門を禁じられている武家人の只次郎は、屋敷で育てている鴬の調子を見ていたが、甥の乙松が高熱にうなされ、町人に扮して急ぎ医者を呼びに走ることに。帰り道「ぜんや」に寄ると、女将のお妙に変装を笑われながらも、“食欲がないときにいいもの”を手渡され...。一方、お妙は夢の中で亡き夫・善助との思い出を蘇らせる。体に良い旬の植物・食材の知恵が詰まった、美味しい傑作人情小説第五巻。