Tale 90 — The big man of Tengumori and a young man's gruesome death
In a field at the foot of Tengumori, a young man who was about to doze off saw a big man with a very red face appear before him. The young man, fond of sumo, challenged him, but was thrown back and lost consciousness. That autumn, when he went to Hayachine to cut bush clover, this man alone could not be found, and he was found dead in a deep valley, his limbs torn out.
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.