No. 71 — Roasting rice cakes

Record

The priest had a habit of hiding away to roast and eat rice cakes given by parishioners, and he tried to send his young temple boy away by telling him to go and look at how the village construction work was progressing. The boy caught on at once and came back, and with fire tongs he made a show of digging out the rice cakes hidden in the ashes, so that the priest realized his scheme had been found out.

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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