No. 37 — Sunekotanpako

Record

A childless couple made a vow to Yakushi-sama, the buddha of healing, and secluded themselves in prayer, and the text breaks off on the night the vow was to be fulfilled. It is presumed to be a tale of a child granted through prayer to Yakushi Nyorai, but the rest of the content is not included in this source.

Source

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

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Gods and Belief, Strange Fates

Beings

Yakushi-sama

This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records. Tale numbers for this book follow the order in which the tales appear; they are ours, not the book's.