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Book of the Dead

死者の書

In the mid-eighth century, during the flourishing Heijo-kyo capital, a young woman named Otome, the daughter of the Fujiwara Minami family, is raised in seclusion to serve the local deity. One spring equinox, she glimpses a majestic figure among the peaks of Mount Nijo and vows to copy a thousand sutras. A year later, having completed her task, she disappears from her home and travels west alone.

She arrives at Banpozoin, a temple at the foot of Mount Nijo that forbids women from entering. To atone for breaking this barrier, Otome is taken into a hermitage within the temple grounds. There, an old woman narrator recounts the story of Shigatsuhiko and Mimimen Toji, two men who were beheaded fifty years earlier for treason. As Otome listens, she becomes entangled in a tale of ancient spirits and unresolved fates.

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