When he was young, Prince Takaoka had been told stories of India by Fujiwara no Yakushi, the favorite concubine of his father, as a bedtime story, and he had longed for that land. Decades later, as he grew up...

Mameda is a tanuki who was born in the wrong era - all she wants is to trick humans, but that age of tanuki shenanigans is over. But one woman, a rakugo master named Bunko, shows Mameda that it's still possible...