Collection of short stories including:⢠NejishikiA man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins...Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories".⢠Numa (Marsh)A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh.⢠ChicoA couple takes care of a java sparrow.⢠Hatsutake Gari (Mushroom Hunting)Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning...⢠Sanshouuo (Salamander)⢠Touge no Inu⢠Uwasa no Bushi⢠Ondoru Koya (Ondoru House)⢠Gensenkan Shujin (Master of the Gensenkan Inn)⢠Chouhachi no Yado⢠Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho (Oba's Electroplate Factory)⢠Yoshiboo no Hanzai⢠Shounen⢠Aru Mumei SakkaIt DOES NOT contain this story:⢠Soto no Fukurami (The Outside Inflation)The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man's house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story.