Tale 6 — The choja's daughter becomes the wife of a yama-otoko
The daughter of a choja, a very rich man, of Nukanomae in Aozasa village was taken and hidden away by something, and was long missing, but a hunter chanced to meet her again in the mountains. She told him that she had been carried off by one who lived in the mountains and had become his wife, and had borne several children, but that all the children had been eaten by her husband, and after asking the hunter to tell no one, she disappeared.
- Land
- Tono
- Beings
- yama-otoko
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.