No. 69 — Red tray, red bowl
A countryman went sightseeing in Kamigata and misheard and misremembered the words used by the inn's master and others there — "going up to the capital, going down from the capital," "red tray, red bowl," "rerepe," "hatchi at Mount Atago," and "enyarayano dokkoisho." After he returned home, when he tried to describe to a doctor the condition of his father, who had fallen from a persimmon tree and been hurt, he strung these words together in a jumble. In the end the meaning did not get across, and the doctor was left bewildered.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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