No. 25 — The peach-selling lord

A young man hid the feathered robe of one of three tennyo, a celestial maiden, who were bathing, and made her his wife, but a portrait of herself that the tennyo had drawn flew on the wind into the lord's garden, and the lord caught sight of her and summoned her to his palace. The tennyo did not smile for three years, but when she heard the young man's voice calling out while disguised as a peach seller, she smiled for the first time; the lord imitated him and also became a peach seller, but was driven out by the gatekeeper, and the young man and the tennyo lived happily in the palace.

Source: Ogasawara Kenkichi (ed.), Shiwa-gun Mukashibanashi-shu (1938) — National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japanese text)
Land: Shiwa District
Type: Yokai and the Uncanny, Strange Fates
Beings: tennyo

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