A rental shop in that era is something that deals with renting anything and everything from daily necessities to antiques and even works of art to customers. However, something is just slightly different when it comes to the merchandise peddled by Izumiya compared to other stores. The difference is that they times that they lend out are known as ‘Tsukumogami.’ These are items that were made more than 100 years ago and have had a type of spirit come to reside in them making them sentient.

The tsukumogami that are rented out to customers listen to various conversations and then spread it around as gossip. Goodhearted Okou and Seiji borrow the powers of the tsukumogami in order to resolve all sorts of quarrels, both big and small, within their town.

This bittersweet real-life story of blossoming tsukumogami is interwoven with the humans of the town in Edo. Enjoy this story as it carefully reaches all the way to your core.

Seiji

Voice Actor: Junya Enoki

Together with his older sister Okou, Seiji is a young boy who runs Izumiya. Seiji is a warm-hearted person who is quick witted and cherished by the members of the town. He is easily coerced and is infuriatingly nice sometimes. This leads some of the Tsukumogami in the shop to tease him. Even though he is not related to his sister Okou by blood, he is very concerned about her…

Okou

Voice Actor: Mikako Komatsu

Okou is the pretty girl who attracts customers to the shop that both she and her younger brother Seiji run, Izumiya. She has a beautiful face and a bright personality leading her to be popular with men and women of all ages. When it comes to Seiji, She has a habit of being strict with him indiscriminately. However, whenever anything happens she relies on Seiji and backs off on being so strict with him.

Satarou

Voice Actor: Takahiro Sakurai

Satarou is the young master of Iidaya, a famous merchant family. He has an attractive face and figure and has a good disposition as well. He had feelings for Okou and was ready to propose to her, but one day he suddenly disappeared.

Notetsu

Voice Actor: Tooru Nara

Notetsu is a bat-shaped netsuke (small carving used to hang personal items from a man’s kimono sash) tsukumogami. He is the only tsukumogami at Izumiya that can fly and without Seiji and Okou knowing, he flies off on his own to gather information, and due to a certain reason, he is strict with humans.

Tsukuyomi

Voice Actor: Yutaka Nakano

Tsukuyomi is a hanging scroll tsukumogami that has a picture of a full moon rising on the night sky. He is very proud and has a habit of telling proverbs and lessons leading the other Tsukumogami to get annoyed with him. However, he has a specific reason for why he is so proud, and that is because...

Goi

Voice Actor: Daisuke Hirakawa

Goi is a tobacco pipe tsukumogami. It is rumored that among tsukumogami, he has a bad habit of summarizing what other tsukumogami are saying when they lively talk amongst each other. However, he ends up not being able to actually summarize anything frequently. His master was a glamorous and beautiful Geisha before he came to reside at Izumiya.

Ohime

Voice Actor: Satomi Akesaka

Ohime is a princess doll tsukumogami. Among all of the tsukumogami items available for rental at Izumiya, Ohime is a particularly high value item in the store. The details of her story is that she was stolen from her previous owner by a thief and after drifting for awhile, she came to arrive at Izumiya.

Usagi

Voice Actor: Yuka Iguchi

Usagi is a comb tsukumogami that has a rabbit design. She really likes to talk and among all of the tsukumogami at Izumiya, she is the most chatty. Due to this, she tends to reveal too much too quickly. Still though, she is honest, warm, and compassionate.