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Then the stepmother began to think that should the youth remain in his father's home, the store-houses east and west, and the granaries north and south, and the house that stood in the midst, could never belong to Otowaka-maru.
"Son, this sickness which you have seems to be leprosy; and one having such a sickness cannot continue to dwell in this house. "It were best for you, therefore, to make a pilgrimage through all the provinces, in the hope that you may be healed by divine influence. "And my storehouses and my granaries I will not give to Otowaka-maru, but only to you, Shuntoku; so you must come back to us."
When he was seven years old, his stepmother gave birth to a son who was called Otowaka-maru. And the two brothers grew up together. When Shuntoku became sixteen years old, he went to Kyoto, to the temple of Tenjin-Sama, to make offerings to the god.
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