Japaninkielinen romaani.

After quitting my job and moving to my husband's countryside, on a hot summer day, I chased a black beast I had never seen before and fell into a chest-deep hole on the bank. Sera, who smells sweet incense, is a strange man who calls himself his brother-in-law to his quiet grandfather who works hard to water the garden. The people I meet are also strange, and the familiar everyday life quietly takes on the color of another world. The Akutagawa Prize-winning title work includes two episodes depicting a mysterious time with a friend and a couple who started a new life in an old rural house.