Hiomi Fushigi Zoshi is a children's short story collection set in Hiomi, an old castle town surrounded by mountains and a river. It recounts five strange events from the Edo period, uncovering the true stories that never survived as folklore, and combines the flavor of old tales with the readability of contemporary children's literature.

Five strange stories from Hiomi, a town no one can quite locate and whose true tales were never passed down.