Tale 51 — The sad love of the otto-dori
The bird that cried with the loneliest voice in the mountains was the otto-dori, a bird said to call for a lost husband. The daughter of a choja, a very rich man, went into the mountains to play with the son of a choja, and when the man vanished and could not be found, the daughter at last became this bird. Its cry of "otto-n" was said to be the voice calling for her husband.
- Land
- Tono
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