No. 4 — The tengu's treasure
Taro, who was stopped in the mountains by a tengu, a long-nosed mountain spirit, received a cloak of hiding and a hat of hiding in exchange for an item he carried, but when he returned home he burned them in the flame of a candlestand. Taro noticed that smearing the unburned ash on his body let him vanish, and he began using the ash to steal goods from a nearby confectioner and other shops. However, when he was discovered and beaten at the confectioner's, the ash was washed away by his tears and blood and his form appeared, and from this Taro gave up gambling and wrongdoing and became an honest man.
- Land
- Inaba and Hoki
- Beings
- tengu
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