Aka Kuchiba Ka No Densetsu (Hajime Motosuiri Bunko)

[Machine Translation] A young child left behind by a frontiersman. This child was taken in by a young couple in the village, and later, she was desired and adopted by the Akakuchiba family, an old family that made a fortune in the iron manufacturing industry, and was called the "Mistress of the Thousand-Legged Eye" of the Akakuchiba family. This is my grandmother, Manyo Akakutuba. -My clairvoyant grandmother, my manga artist mother, and myself, a nobody. This is a rare masterpiece that vividly depicts three generations of women in an old family and the family that surrounds them. Winner of the 60th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award.

"辺境の人"に置き忘れられた幼子。この子は村の若夫婦に引き取られ、長じて製鉄業で財を成した旧家赤朽葉家に望まれ輿入れし、赤朽葉家の"千里眼奥様"と呼ばれることになる。これが、わたしの祖母である赤朽葉万葉だ。-千里眼の祖母、漫画家の母、そして何者でもないわたし。旧家に生きる三代の女たち、そして彼女たちを取り巻く一族の姿を鮮やかに描き上げた稀代の雄編。第60回日本推理作家協会賞受賞。