I like how Sakurai continuously morphs into a vixen throught the chapter covers
By the way, the Ejima-Ikushima affair was also retold in Fumi Yoshinaga's Oooku (which is an excellent manga by the way), although it was just a mini-arc of the manga
I don’t fully get the ending to this one. I assume it has to do with the sex toy maker Sakurai murdered — a fox was posing as her father to get revenge on her? Her leg looks like that to mimic the teeth of a trap closing on a fox’s leg? It’s kind of an abrupt pivot to the explicitly supernatural in this one.