momoye

Updated: June 21, 2025

Now there was a man, dwelling near that gate, whose name was Kino Momoye; and he ridiculed the characters which Kobodaishi had made, and pointed to one of them, saying: 'Why, it looks like a swaggering wrestler! But the same night Momoye dreamed that a wrestler had come to his bedside and leaped upon him, and was beating him with his fists.

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