Amadera no sei: Kesa-saguri

An izakaya with an open hearth. Tsubasa, a young man from the town, sits drinking and listening to a man’s tale. Though he had planned to leave for Tokyo the very next day to seek his fortune, he finds himself completely drawn into the man’s story—a tale about a nun from Aitoku-in, a mountain convent, who descends into the town once a year to engage in illicit nocturnal trysts with a man born under the year’s corresponding zodiac sign…