Japanese Fairy Tale Series 01 #05- Kachi Kachi Mountain

Japanese Fairy Tale

KACHI-KACHI MOtetfTAIN.

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HASEGAWA, 17 Kami

Negishi, Tokyo.

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upon a time there was

an old farmer who cultivated a

field in the

mountains.

came and brought

his

old wife

him

his dinner; but a

and eat

it.

One day

This

badger

made

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the

stole

old

man angry and badger

at last he took the

alive, carried it

him, and hung the

"Let us have

Have

soup.

wait

to a rafter

Then he

feet.

wife,

it

it

this

badger

well cooked

went again to the

by

said to his

I come back."

till

home with

field.

for

and

Then he His wife

was pounding barley in a mortar

and

singing.

ger

said,

my

life

In

distress the bad-

"If you will only spare

I

for you."

will

As

pound the barley it

was indeed

in a

plight

she

and

let

down.

it

the

cord

Then

right

untied

sad

away the badger sprang old

woman and

made her

killed

into soup.

at

her,

the

and

Then

he

shape

and

when turned

When

the

her

assumed sat

old

from

waiting,

man the

re-

field.

he was about to

partake of the soup,

the badger

assumed

form,

cried

man

his

out,

you!

original

"You

wife-eating

Did not you

and old

see the

bones under the floor?" Laughing

derisively

it

escaped out of doors

and disappeared.

The

old

man

threw down his chop-sticks and cried long

the

and

bitterly.

same mountain there

old rabbit.

Now

in

lived

an

Hearing the voice of

the old

man

crying,

he came and tried to comfort him,

and

said he would himself

avenge the death of the old "

woman.

me some man bit

"

First,

he

"

And

beans."

parch

said,

parched them.

the

The

old rab-

put the parched beans in a

pouch

and

said,

mountain again;"

"Now

to

the

and away he

went.

The badger was

by the

smell,

attracted

and came and

said;

f "Give

me

about a handful of those This was what the rab-

beans." bit

was expecting.

"I

will if

you

will carry a

of dry-grass for

mountain." say without

me

"I fail,"

said;

bundle

over to yon

will

do as you

replied the bad-

ger, "only first give

He

So he

me the

beans."

begged importunately, but the

rabbit said; "Yes, after you have carried

He

the

load

of

dry-grass."

then put on his back a great

pile

of dried-grass and sent the

badger on out

his

spark,

before,

flint

and

while he took

and struck out a

set the

bundle on

fire.

The badger alarmed asked, "what replied;

is

that?"

"That

kindle

and spread

grass*

The badger,

The

rabbit

KacU-KacU

is

Mountain."* Soon the

"

at the noise

fire

in

began to

the

dried-

Click-Click Mountain, or the Mountain of Victory.

hearing this

again asked, "what

is

thatf The

Bo-Bo

rabbit replied,

"That

Mountain,"*

By

this time the fire

had spread

to the

and burnt

it

badger's back

in badly. Crying out

pain, he rolled over his load

The

is

and shook

off

and ran away out of sight. rabbit

next mixed ^ome

sauce and red-pepper and

made a

t

sticking plaster, put set

out to

blisters

sell

and burns.

was then lying

f

it

on a hat and

as a cure

for

The badger

helpless with his

Crackle Mountain, or Mountain of Defeat

f r

back

all

raw and

That must

sore.

be a good medicine, he thought,

when he heard some applied there

is

of

So he got

it.

to his

no language

But

back.

how

to tell

he smarted when the red-pepper sticking plaster sore skin.

He

was applied

just rolled over

over and howled long and

Now

after about

and

bitterly.

twenty days the

badger's sore was healed. rabbit

to his

was then making a

and the badger seeing

it

The boat,

asked

a what are with you going to do this boat?

"

The

rabbit replied,

I

intend to catch fish," thus deceiving.

The badger dull

Jifflte

felt

envious, but

in that

was

kind of work.

"I too will

he

said.

make a

boat of clay,"

So having made a clay

boat he rowed out to sea along

with the rabbit.

Then the

badger's boat began to sink,

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and when

was

brandished

rabbit

and

it

struck

the

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his

oar

badger

man's wife.

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the

aloft

thus avenging the old

sinking,

dead,

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