DESCENDING STORIES: SHOW GENROKU RAKUGO SHINJU, by Haruko Kumota. First published in 2010 and first published in North America in 2017.
PLOT:
Fresh out of prison, a young man is determined to find Yakumo,the rakugo master who inspired him and become his apprentice. He manages to convince the difficult old man, but the newly dubbed Yotaro finds himself now caught in the middle of a long-simmering family feud between Yakumo, his adopted daughter Konatsu, and the dead man whose memories haunt them both.
