When a respectable councilor in old Miyako is murdered while he is with a new concubine, a number of suspects arouse the suspicion of Matsudaira Konnosuke, governor of Miyako. Along with his aides—the blonde Rosamund, the samurai Jiro, and the deadly female ninja Okiku—Konnosuke investigates. The witnesses provide valuable information, along with numerous erotic interludes, in this salacious mystery.