[Machine Translation] In the year 1962, Tokyo was a metropolis that was changing day by day. In a corner of the city, the storytellers and rakugo storytellers who devoted themselves to their craft and poured the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the human world into their art are beautifully portrayed, along with the human feelings of the people who gathered at the Ueno Honmokutei. The story condenses the state of the world into the world of art, and was awarded the 50th Naoki Prize. This masterpiece novel made the name of Antsuru, an entertainment critic, known to the world as a novelist.