Fude Nomi Ga Shiru Yurei Eshi Hi Kyo

[Machine Translation] Maa is the only daughter of Shinoda, a large restaurant. When she was 12, she was told that she had a chest ailment, and since then she spends her days in her room, reading picture books and red books. One day, a famous painter named Hi-kyo takes up residence on the second floor of Shinoda. His job is to scare people," he says, and he not only draws scary pictures, but also seems to be able to see things that ordinary people cannot. A man haunted by a painted dog, a traveler troubled by a woman's voice saying "I want to go home," a princess who died because she put her true feelings, which she could not tell anyone, into a painting.... Encounters with these ghosts change Maa, who had no real sense of life.

大きな料理屋「しの田」のひとり娘である真阿。十二のときに胸を病んでいると言われ、それからは部屋にこもり、絵草紙や赤本を読む毎日だ。あるとき「しの田」の二階に、有名な絵師の火狂が居候をすることになる。「怖がらせるのが仕事」と言う彼は、怖い絵を描くだけではなく、普通の人には見えないものが見えているようだ。絵の犬に取り憑かれた男、“帰りたい”という女の声に悩む旅人、誰にも言えない本心を絵に込めて死んだ姫君...。幽霊たちとの出会いが、生きる実感のなかった真阿を変えていく。