Tale 95 — A mysterious stone and an ascent into the sky
A certain Kikuchi, who was fond of making gardens, found an unfamiliar, beautiful large rock in the mountains and tried to bring it home, but being tired from its weight he stopped to rest and leaned against it, whereupon he rose into the air together with the rock, and had a strange experience of hearing the voices of many people in a bright place where flowers were blooming. He became afraid and did not bring the rock into his house, and it remains in the mountains to this day.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Matsuzaki, Tono, Iwate
- Type
- Strange Fates
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