Souami, also known as Shinsou, was a watercolor painter during the Muromachi period, and served the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate. In the present, a space shuttle carrying Japanese astronaut Sekine-Jun is about to be launched and he recalls the time years ago when he and Fujita studied art at college. Although Sekine was skilled with watercolors and had to manage the family art gallery, his dream was to be an astronomer. He asked Fujita for funding, and promised to create a painting for him...