Tale 42 — The wolf hunt and Tetsu's end
At the foot of Mount Rokkoshi, in a reed-covered hill, a person of Iide village found three wolf cubs, the mountain wolf once called o-inu, killed two of them, and brought one home. After that, only the horses of this village came to be attacked by wolfs. When the villagers held a wolf hunt, a man named Tetsu, who prided himself on his strength, grappled a female wolf with his bare hands; the wolf died, but Tetsu too suffered a deep wound and died soon after.
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.