Teito Sen Ichi Ya Binan No Shi Eherazado (Shogakukan Bunko C Mi 7-1 Kyara Bun!)

[Machine Translation] Kazuyasu is a quiet and unsociable man who is the proprietor of the Takizawa Ryokan in Kyobashi Ward. He sometimes drinks tea with Saleh, a young man from another country who is staying at the inn. Saleh, who has come to the capital to trade goods from his homeland by order of his master, tells him in his beautiful voice about the customs and tales of a faraway desert land. Strange happenings often occur around them, confusing people. A pitcher of water that rejuvenates people, a bazaar beyond the night stalls, a golden osmanthus whose fragrance has disappeared... At the request of the police commissioner dressed as a mountain priest, Saleh and Wakyo investigate the mystery of mysterious incidents caused by exotic spirits that have come to this land...

京橋区にある瀧澤旅館の主人である無口で無愛想な男、和恭。彼が時折、宿の縁側でともに茶を飲むのは、旅館に滞在中の異国の青年サレハだ。主命により故郷の品を商うために帝都にやってきたサレハは、遥か遠い砂漠の国の風物や物語を、その美しい声で語って聞かせてくれる。そんな二人の周囲では、奇妙な出来事がたびたび起こり人々を惑わせていた。人を若返らせる水差し、夜店の向こうにあるバザール、香りが消えた金木犀―山伏姿の警視総監に依頼され、サレハと和恭は、この地にやってきた異国の妖霊たちによる不思議な事件の謎を探ることに...。