Okuri Eshi (Haru Ki Bunko Mo 5-1 Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Ofuyu, who was left alone in her hometown of Sendai after the death of her mother, went to Edo (present-day Tokyo) based on her mother's last words. One day, when she was having trouble painting what she wanted, she came across a "death picture" depicting a deceased actor. Meanwhile, Ichinoshin Tomizawa III, an old friend and actor whom she met in Sendai when she was a child, is finally going to play the leading role in a summer show at a playhouse in Asakusa. Ofuyu is invited by Ichinoshin's mother, Okyo, to go see the play on its opening day... This newly written historical novel is a tear-jerker about single-minded love and parent-child bonds that illuminate the sorrowful world.

故郷の仙台で母親を亡くし天涯孤独となったおふゆは、母の最期の言葉を頼りに江戸に行き、縁あって、絵師歌川国藤のもと、住み込みで修業中の身である。思うような絵が描けず、悩んでいたある日、亡くなった役者の姿を描いた「死絵」に出会う。一方、幼少時に仙台で知り合った昔馴染みで役者の三代目富沢市之進が、浅草の芝居小屋の夏興行でついに主役を張るという。おふゆは市之進の母親お京に誘われ、初日の舞台を見に行くことになるが...。憂き世を照らす一途な愛と親子の絆に涙する、書き下ろし時代小説。