No. 2 — The tale of Yota of Sajidani
Inaba Province's Yazu District, Sajidani, was a village with many people who were so honest that they were at times a bit simple-minded. A young man called Yota went out to help with a relative's funeral, and one blunder followed another: he mistook a crow on the roof for the priest and spoke to it, he dropped and broke a sake jar, and he even burned clogs and an umbrella as kindling for cooking rice and heating the bath. On the way home he forgot the name "dango," which he had just learned, and instead brought back the shout "hyoi," which he had used when jumping over a ditch. When this made no sense to anyone, he struck his wife's head, and only upon seeing the bump that rose from it did he finally remember "dango" - a comical ending.
- Land
- Inaba and Hoki
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