Volume 1 Introduction: Yamaoka Hyakusuke is a young man with dreams of becoming a popular fiction writer, traveling the provinces to collect tales of the strange and supernatural. Taking shelter from the rain in a mountain hut in Echigo, he encounters an unlikely group of strangers: a man dressed as a wandering ascetic, a sophisticated woman, an elderly merchant, and a monk whose complexion seems somehow off. They decide to pass the long, rainy night with a game of hyakumonogatari — the hundred ...
