No. 53 — The temple boy who bought sake

Record

It began with a scene in which a temple priest who was fond of sake always sent his temple boy to buy it, showing the amount with the number of fingers he held up, but the text broke off at this point and the ending was unknown.

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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