No. 4 — Kota of Koga
Kota, swept away by a duck at a still pool in the Kitakami River, was dropped onto the roof of the great Buddha of Nara. He tried to climb down using a villager's wrapping cloth, but failed and fell into the ground. With medicine given to him by a doctor he rose up above the clouds, and while helping Narugami-sama, the god of thunder, bring down the rain, he missed his footing on a cloud and fell. When he woke, he found he had wet his own bed - a tale that ends as a dream.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
- Beings
- Narugami-sama
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