No. 44 — Razor

Record

A priest cut salted fish with a razor and ate it alone, and he warned his acolyte, "Do not speak of what you see and hear." After that, the acolyte called a fish under a bridge a razor and was scolded for it, and turning the priest's own words against him, he carried on a comical exchange about a hood and a hat filled with dung.

Source

Ogasawara Kenkichi (ed.), Shiwa-gun Mukashibanashi-shu (1938) — National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japanese text)

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Strange Fates

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