Tale 50 — The kakko flowers of Mount Shisuke
On Mount Shisuke there bloomed kakko flowers, rare even for Tono. Around the fifth month, when the cuckoo called, women and children went up the mountain to gather them, steeping them in vinegar to turn them purple, or blowing them like ground cherries for play - one of the young people's great pleasures.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Tono, Iwate
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