Katagiri Jinpachi is a magnet for the mysterious, and Harada Oriza is a famed painter of ghosts and yokai who makes eager use of Jinpachi's connection to the uncanny.

"There's a string hanging there," says Oriza, a collector of all manner of supernatural things. Ever since he was a child, he's been able to perceive mysterious strings that were hidden to others. Leading to both the mystical and the mundane, the strings' true nature is soon revealed...