A faithful ashigaru's nightly vanishings beneath a bridge in old Edo reveal a kaidan of love, secrecy, and a toad-spirit's deadly hunger.
Inside Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's 1927 novella Kappa — the psychiatric patient who fell into the river-spirit country, lived among the kappa for a year, and tried to climb back to a world that no longer felt like home.
Inside the 1666 Edo kaidan of the Peony Lantern (Botan Dōrō) — a masterless samurai, a ghostly woman, and the talisman that dissolved in the rain.
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