Every ten years, a young woman is offered as a sacrifice to the mountain god. When the tengu goes to see the sacrifice, he finds out that the sacrifice actually volunteered for the role. And the sacrifice tu...

A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.

Itsuki and Hayato, two brothers who grew up in a village nestled deep in the mountains, set out to hunt down a wolf that has been attacking the livestock of the village. Itsuki is about to go in for the kill...