Ashiya Yamanote Odougu Geihinkan

芦屋山手 お道具迎賓館

An antique fantasy about an eccentric teacher and a tea bowl that is inhabited by a *tsukumogami* spirit. One spring day in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, a man unearths a beautiful tea bowl in his garden. The bowl is home to a *tsukumogami* spirit, whom the man names Shiro-san. They begin living together. Though Shiro-san has no memory of when or how he came to exist, he eventually learns that the bowl is actually a Shiro Tenmoku masterpiece and a national treasure that was once cherished by the Sengoku-period warlord Oda Nobunaga... *Note: Based on the 2022 novel of the same name by Madoka Takadono.*

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