No. 3 — The tengu's treasure
A child named Taro, who lived at the foot of Mount Daisen in Hoki Province and loved gambling, went one day to Mount Daisen to gather firewood. While resting in a place thick with trees and amusing himself with dice, he heard a voice call "Taro, Taro" from above. When he looked up, a strange being whose nose was more than one shaku long began to appear — but the text breaks off at that point, and what follows is not recorded.
- Land
- Inaba and Hoki
- Beings
- tengu
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