[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: This world is full of life unknown to man. Insects" are neither animals nor plants, but the original organisms of life. When we come into contact with these mysterious phenomena, we come to know for the first time their ethereal existence. The existence that connects bugs and humans - that is the "Mushishi". The long-awaited first book collection of a work that originated in the Afternoon Season supplement and became a very popular...
Nice drawings
With some (not-that-scientific) explanation. Disjointed stories, but eventually those anecdotes are connected to the 蟲師.