Strolling in the forest of books (22) : A legendary storyteller: Baba Bunko and his writings (2)

摘要

Of the kaidan (ghost story) called sarayashiki mono, in which a female ghost named Kiku counts the number of plates every night, the most well-known are Banshu Sarayashiki set in Himeji, Banshu and Bancho Sarayashiki set in Bancho, Edo.