No. 85 — The doorway for sending the wife away

Record

A man compared his neighbor's wife with his own, and reproached his own wife, who was a hard worker, calling her ugly, and declared that he would divorce her. But when the wife made herself ready and was about to leave, she suddenly looked beautiful to him, and he became reluctant to let her go. The husband stood blocking every doorway to stop his wife from going out, and in the end the wife remained in the house.

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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