No. 38 — Sunekotanpako
A childless couple was told in a dream that they should raise with care a child that had settled in a shin, and in time a small boy called Sunekotanpako was born from the shin. Sunekotanpako, now grown, went to the choja next door to ask for his younger daughter, Ubako-sama, as a bride, and although he was treated as a servant, he was allowed to sleep near the girl's bed. At night he falsely claimed that the girl had eaten rice he himself had gotten by begging, and cried and made an uproar over it; because of this the girl came under suspicion and was driven from the house, and she became Sunekotanpako's wife.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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