The young Kinshiro Toyama has left his hatamoto household and lives in town as an apprentice flute player for kabuki. After finding the body of a courtesan near Yoshiwara, he joins a kyoka poet and an ukiyo-e artist in uncovering the sorrow behind a woman who had longed for double suicide.

A young Kinshiro living among townspeople follows the hidden mechanisms behind a courtesan's death.