1. Schippeitaro
- Interesting how once men "become of age" and reach manhood, they have to leave their home in search of adventure back then. Sort of like a rite of passage.
- So this young man set out on an adventure to make his name known to all the peeps
- He traveled for a while and found nothing much until one night, he heard a group of ugly cats dancing around and saying "don't tell Schippeitaro"
- who is shippeitaro?
- It turns out that nearby, there was a family who was in distress because she was to be sacrificed for the "spirit of the muntains" to eat
- He wanted to help the girl so he went looking for Schippeitaro (who is actually a dog)
- He put the dog into the casket that the girl was supposed to be put into to be carried away
- once the time came to "eat" the girl, the dog came out and bit the cats and killed quite a few of them along with the "spirit of the mountain"
- yay, victory
- Did I just read that a crab was a good housewife??
- the mean monkey beat up the crab?! that's so terrible.
- violence is not the answer, children.
- I'm glad the monkey got what he deserved.
- And the crab lived happily ever after!
- there was once an old man who found a kettle that could transform into a tanuki
- he thought it wreaked havoc so he sold it to a man named Jimmu
- Jimmu found out that it was a magic kettle that could dance and transformed
- he opened a booth to showcase the magic powers of the kettle and made a lot of money
- in the end, he returned the kettle along with some money to the old man
- what a kind man to give some money back to the seller
- Wow. Hunting all of the animals...
- the fox was married to the tanuki? cute.
- they concocted a plan to play dead in order to get money
- wow he betrayed his wife by truly getting rid of her so he and his son could have more food.
- but she's your wife..
- the son soon made plans to avenge his mother
- he made a wager with his father by saying he was better at magic and tricked him into getting caught by the king and his guards
- there are a lot of tanuki stories, surprisingly.
- This one was hard for me to read and found it to be uninteresting unfortunately.
- uraschimataro sounds like a really nice name and a mouthful haha
- he was brave and ventured out to sea where no other man would go
- people warned him that if he went too far, one day he would be swept away at sea
- One day, he found a turtle and captured it but eventually let it go because it begged him to set it free and so he did
- Years later, he got caught up in the storm and the turtle saved his life
- the turtle took him to the palace of the sea god and told him that it was the subject of Otohime, the sea god's daughter
- the daughter saw uraschimataro and fell him love with him. she begged him to stay and so he did.
- A long time passed and he eventually felt homesick. The princess eventually let him leave with a box he was to not open, but it turned out that he had stayed in the palace for 300 years. All of his friends and family have passed away.
- He ended up opening the box which caused him to lose his youth and the turtle never came back to get him and he eventually died
- how sad... but a really good story nonetheless
Source: UN-Textbook.
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