つくもがみ貸します

by Megumi Hatakenaka, 畠中 恵

お江戸の片隅、お紅と清次の姉弟二人で切り盛りする、小さなお店「出雲屋」。鍋、釜、布団にふんどしまで、何でも貸し出す出雲屋ですが、よそにはないような、ちょっと妙な品も混じっているようで…。彼らは、生まれて百年を経て、つくもがみという妖怪に化した古道具。気位も高く、いたずら好きでおせっかいな妖怪たちは、今日もせっせと、出雲屋を引っ掻き回すのでありました。ほろりと切なく、ふんわり暖かい。畠中ワールド、待望の最新作。

255 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sammm · Rating 5 out of 5]

The physical copy actually has 274 pages (GR currently listing it as 256). It's weird because it looks like this edition has a page on GR for quite some time, but I swear back in late April early May, it didn't show up in search, which was why I delayed in reading it after borrowing it from the library, it was completely by chance that I decided to search again, owells.

It's a pretty fun story, I'm just sad that the traditional Chinese edition is out of print, and it does not look like the publisher had any plans to continue translate the sequels ( and , the series as of now does not have a series page on GR), so much potential unfulfilled.

[Linda Liu · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up Tsukumogami Kashimasu hoping for a lively historical fiction enriched by Japanese folklore. Tsukumogami are household objects which have acquired a spirit after a 100 years of cherished use, and while they make an appearance in the book, of course, they are not central to the story; rather, they are mostly used as a convenient plot device to give the main characters knowledge they wouldn't have access to otherwise. The narrative is episodic, where each section introduces a new tsukumogami and mystery and also - more or less - resolves the mystery. Although the last three were focused on the same (human) character, they were not interwoven so much as loosely related. This mode of storytelling serves well the anime adaptation the series eventually received, but it was very far from what I was looking for. Overall, Tsukumogami Kashimasu was short and sweet but failed to leverage the historical and cultural context it inhabited.

[Forrest · Rating 5 out of 5]

"很可愛的一部小品作品!!!讀完彷彿在路邊攤吃了一碗湯鮮味美的擔仔麵似的!!!會讓人不知不覺的喜歡上日本的妖怪喔!!!!^^"

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

間違ってラノベ買ったかと思った。この人、シリーズ物の方が面白いの？