No. 60 — The monkey's bride

Record

A choja, a very rich man, had promised his daughter in marriage to a monkey, old mountain monkeys said to turn uncanny, after it plowed his field, and so she was sent to be the monkey's bride. On the way to the deep mountains, the daughter said she wanted a rock and wisteria flowers as gifts for her father. She had the monkey carry the rock on its back and climb to a high branch of the wisteria, and when the branch broke, the monkey fell into a pool and drowned before the laughing daughter, who then returned home safely.

Source

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

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Shape-Shifting Animals, Strange Fates

Beings

monkey

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