No. 66 — The seven Jizo

Record

On New Year's Eve, the wife sold a padded coat she had spent three years making, and with the money bought hats for the Jizo, a stone bodhisattva statue, that stood exposed to the rain and snow, and put the hats on them; for the one that still lacked a hat, she even gave her own, and the couple went home. That night they heard the sound of the Jizo pulling a sled and carrying gold, and the couple, understanding it as the Jizo's repayment, bowed and received it, and became prosperous.

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

Jizo

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