Otafuku (Futaba Bunko Fu 16-60 Shinshiranuga Hambe Tebikae Jo)

[Machine Translation] Sohei Sohee, the owner of the Kikunoya haberdashery shop, who surrounded himself with concubines and slapped his hard-working wife with a three-and-a-half year prison sentence. Sohee is blinded by greed and is cheated out of two hundred ryo. Hanbei Shirazuti, a temporary assistant, suspects that someone with a grudge against Sohee has done this, and begins to track down his wife Osome, who was disrespected by Sohee as having a "Otafuku" face and divorced from him. Sohei, who had been ridiculed by those around him as having been punished for his crime, is struck with another calamity. The eighteenth in the popular series of newly written novels depicting the humanistic judgment of Hanbei, who boasts, "There are some things in this world that are better left unnoticed.

妾を囲い、働き者の女房に三行半をつきつけた小間物屋『菊乃家』の主・宗兵衛。その宗兵衛が欲に目がくらみ、二百両を騙し取られた。宗兵衛に恨みを抱く者の仕業と睨んだ臨時廻り同心の白縫半兵衛は、宗兵衛にお多福顔と軽んじられ、離縁された女房おそめの行方を追い始める。そんな中、周囲から罰が当たったと嘲笑されていた宗兵衛に、またぞろ災難が降りかかり―。「世の中には知らん顔をした方が良いこともあるさ」と嘯く半兵衛の人情裁きを描く、書き下ろし人気シリーズ第十八弾。