Kamei Yogorouta

Playing the Sparrow When a wealthy landowner visits the Sparrow Inn, a high class house for traditional feathered-courtesans, everyone wants a shot at him in spite of rumors he's recently been affianced. Much to the madam's dismay he makes an unexpected choice of companion in Suzume, a clumsy boy attendant who supports his little brother and sister by working in the kitchen…

At the end of the yearly winter, when the Tetsugome Zorainu (or "Celestial Dog") is to chose its bride, all the girls are hidden within their houses, afraid that they might be chosen. Yuzu, a young boy living in a household of all girls, is made the black sheep of the family and sent out to do chores. A chance encounter by the lake with Shuro, a fox spirit, bind Yuzu and Shuro…