Tale 99 — The spirit of the wife lost in the tsunami
Fukuji of Tsuchibuchi village lost his wife and children in a great tsunami, and lived in a hut built on the site of his old house. One night in the fog, he saw his dead wife walking together with another dead man. When he called out, she turned and smiled, but when he asked about the children, she showed tears, and the two of them vanished.
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.