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Updated: June 7, 2025
Shuntoku received the things, and thanked her, and made ready to depart, even in his piteous state. He put on his straw sandals and fastened them tightly, and took a bamboo staff in his hand, and placed a hat of woven rushes upon his head. And saying, "Farewell, father; farewell, mother," poor Shuntoku started on his journey.
And she spoke cunningly to Nobuyoshi, her husband, saying: "Sir, my lord, this sickness of Shuntoku seems to be a very bad sickness; and it is difficult to keep one having such sickness in the house of a rich man." Then Nobuyoshi was much surprised, and sorrowed greatly; but, thinking to himself that indeed it could not be helped, he called Shuntoku to him, and said:
And after your death you shall be sent to hell, and there put into the bottom of an iron caldron to be boiled." This is the end of the Story of Shuntoku. With a jubilant tap of the fan we finish so! Joyfully!-joyfully!-joyfully! To tell every word of the tale, this is the story of Oguri-Hangwan.
"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.
Then a maid servant of the house, hearing the cry, came out and gave him food, and laughed aloud, saying: "Who could help laughing at the idea of trying to give anything to so comical a pilgrim?" Shuntoku asked: "Why do you laugh? I am the son of a rich and well-famed man, Nobuyoshi of Kawachi. But because of a malediction invoked upon me by my wicked stepmother, I have become as you see me."
Hearing from his father these kind words of farewell, Shuntoku felt much happier, and covering his face with the great rush hat, so as not to be known to the neighbors, he went on alone.
Sorrowfully Nobuyoshi accompanied his son a part of the way, saying: "It cannot be helped, Shuntoku. But if, through the divine favor Of those august deities to whom that charm is dedicated, your disease should become cured, then come back to us at once, my son."
Forthwith Otohime awoke, and told her dream to Shuntoku, and they both wondered. They arose, and went down to the river together, and washed themselves, and worshiped the goddess. Then, strange to say, the eyes of blind Shuntoku were fully opened, and his clear sight came back to him, and the disease passed away from him. And both wept because of the greatness of their joy.
I will plant a thousand hinoki, a thousand sugi, a thousand karamatsu. "But if Shuntoku should not be healed by reason of this vow, then he and I will drown ourselves together in yonder lotos-pond. "And after our death, taking the form of two great serpents, we will torment all who come to worship at this temple, and bar the way against pilgrims."
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