The titular Mushi-master of the title, Ginko, wanders Japan in order to search and study the creatures called the Mushi and the phenomenon they cause. In volume 2, episodes 6-10 of the series ...

While on board a boat, Ginko meets a young man who has developed a connection to a flock of bird-type mushi able to create wind. After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi ...

Several years later in that same mountain, the mushishi Ginko stumbles upon a young girl in a mountain with branches and leaves growing out of her body. He later realises that she is the lord of ...