Table of Contents
"Fukubukuro" (Makate Asai)
"Bikkuri Mizu" (Hisahide Nakajima)
"Inonabe" (Fumie Kondo)
"Sakura Horohoro" (Yoshiko Igarashi)
"Itokichi no Koi" (Miyuki Miyabe)

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Is there a "mystery" in delicious food!?
Mitarashi dango, wild boar hot pot, nanohana rice... An Edo-era culinary and humanistic anthology by contemporary female writers.

"Fukubukuro" (Makate Asai)
A dried goods shop owner wants to divorce his wife, but cannot because he has spent all of her dowry. He plans to have his older sister, who has returned home after eating too much, participate in a gluttony contest to win prize money, but...

"Bikkuri Mizu" (Hisahide Nakajima)
Shohkichi is a skilled confectioner, but he rarely works. His wife, Osato, makes sweets in his place, but customers complain. Fearing that she will be sent to work as a servant, their daughter, Michi, decides to carry out a plan to test her father's true feelings.

"Inonabe" (Fumie Kondo)
Chikage, a police officer, visits a popular wild boar hot pot restaurant for her younger mother-in-law, who cannot eat anything due to morning sickness. Relieved when her mother-in-law's appetite improves with the renowned dish, Chikage becomes entangled in a commotion at the restaurant...

"Sakura Horohoro" (Yoshiko Igarashi)
Sayo served a samurai family's wife and remained unmarried. After retiring from service at the age of fifty-five and returning to her family home, Sayo, bored with her daily life, opens a teahouse against her family's wishes. During this time, she meets a woman who is troubled by her demanding mother-in-law after losing her husband.

"Itokichi no Koi" (Miyuki Miyabe)
Itokichi, a subordinate of the constable Moshichi, sees a crying girl in a field of rapeseed flowers. When he asks her what's wrong, she tells him that a baby is buried beneath the rapeseed flowers. He reports this to Moshichi, but is dismissed as telling a tall tale. Determined, Itokichi begins to investigate on his own...