The Tales of Tohno

第4話 The Woman in the Mountains

When the owner of a house named Kichibee in Yamaguchi Village went into Mt. Nekkodachi, cut the bamboo grasses, bundled them up and started to stand up, he noticed the wind blowing over the bamboo grasses and saw a young woman with an infant on her back walking over the grasses from the woods at the back. The woman was very beautiful, and she also had long dark hair. The string that ties her child is a wisteria vine, and the clothing she wears is an ordinary striped garment, but the hem is tattered and torn around the edges, stitched together with leaves from various trees. Her feet didn't feel grounded. She approached this way flatly, passing right in front of him and passing somewhere else. He began to get sick from the horror of the time and had been sick for a long time but had recently died.

○Kichibee in Yamaguchi, Tsuchibuchi village is successive popular name and the host’s name also Kichibee.

bundle......（動）束ねる

infant......（名）幼児、赤子

string......（名）紐

wisteria......（名）フジ

vine......（名）蔓

garment......（名）衣服

hem......（名）裾

tatter......（名）ぼろきれ

stitch......（動）縫い合わせる