Tale 29 — The tengu and gold of Mount Keito
To Mount Keito, where a tengu, a long-nosed mountain spirit, was said to live and which even those on pilgrimage to Hayachine avoided, a man known as an outlaw climbed on a bet. At the top, on a rock, he came upon three large men spreading out gold and silver, and when he was told to cover his eyes, the ijin, strangers from outside the village, at once vanished.
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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.