Tale 86 — The father's spirit that appeared at the hour of death
When the father of Masa, a tofu-maker, was gravely ill and near death, he appeared one evening at the site where the ground was being tamped for a hall in neighboring Shimotochinai, greeted the people there, helped with the work, and went home when it grew dark. It was later learned that this was exactly the time when the father was about to breathe his last.
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