No. 26 — Itonaga Shoji of Harima Province

Record

Three farmers who had come to work on a castle's construction talked among themselves during their lunch break about what they each wished for, and the lord, overhearing them, gave to each of the three: his own meal, a chest of a thousand ryo, and one of the ladies of the inner chambers. The third man seized one of the serving women of the palace and made her his wife, but one day she disappeared. Following a thread that led him to a clue, he learned that she had been the third daughter of Itonaga Shoji of Harima Province, and he was welcomed as a son-in-law; he also distinguished himself in deer hunting and prospered.

Source

Ogasawara Kenkichi (ed.), Shiwa-gun Mukashibanashi-shu (1938) — National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japanese text)

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Strange Fates

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