Tale 49 — Record of strange happenings at Sennindo
Halfway up Sennin Pass stood Sennindo, a hall enshrining a mountain hermit, and travelers kept the custom of writing down the strange things they met in these mountains. The records told of meeting a young woman with her hair hanging loose who smiled at the traveler, of being played a trick by a monkey, old mountain monkeys said to turn uncanny, and of encountering three bandits.
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.