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A wife who eats nothing

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Translation　ちいさな翻訳屋さん

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　Long time ago, there was a stingy man. He always said,

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‘Oh, I want a wife who eats nothing and works hard.’
　That can’t be true.One day, a woman came to him.

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‘I’m a woman who eats nothing and works hard. Why don’t you marry me?’

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　she said.

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　He was delighted to hear that and married her.

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　The woman worked very hard.
　And she doesn’t eat anything.

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‘She never eats but works hard. She is a perfect wife.’
　One day, however, he found that the rice bags were missing.

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‘Hum. Weird. My wife shouldn’t eat nothing.’
　He asked his wife, and

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‘No. I don’t know at all.’
　she said.

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　Next morning,

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　He pretended to go to work and hid himself in the attic to watch her.

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　Then, his wife took a rice bag from the granary,

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　and cooked rice with a big iron pot bringing from somewhere.

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　She kept making a lot of onigiri (rice ball) with 1.8 l of salt and piled them up.

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‘It’s like festival. What is she going to do with a lot of onigiri?’

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　When he looked at her, she began to comb her hair and she pushed through the top of hair.

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　To his surprise, a big mouth appeared from the cracked top of head and opened.

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　She threw onigiri into the mouth one after another,

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　and finished off a rice bag of onigiri.

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‘Oh no. My wife is a monster!’

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　The man trembled with shiver,he went down from the attic without being noticed, knocked the front door as if he just came back from work.
‘Hey. I’m home now.’
　His wife tied her hair quickly to hide the mouth and said,
‘Hi, darling.’

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　she welcomed him with a smile.
‘・・・・・・’
　He kept silent for a while, and finally made up his mind to tell her.

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‘Listen.
　Today, I’ve got a sign from Mountain god.
‘Your wife is perfect, but there’ll be a serious consequences. Throw her out of your house!’
　God said.
　So, can you get out of here?’
　She said easily,
‘I see. If you want me to leave, I’ll do.

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　but, I want a tub and rope as a souvenior.’
‘Sure. No problem. I’ll give them to you right now.’

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　When he gave them, she said,

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‘Could you check whether there is any hole at the bottom of the tub?’
‘Of course, I can do it.’

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　When he went into the tub,

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　she tied up the tub with the rope and carried it up with him in the tub.

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　The man astonished and looked her face,

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　she transfered into onibaba (ogress).

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　Ogress rushed faster than a horse,

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　brought him into the mountain.

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‘She’ll kill me! What should I do?’

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　While he was thinking how to escape, ogress was going to take a rest leaning against the tree.
‘Now is the time!’

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　He grabbed a branch and ran away from her.

　Without knowing that, ogress began to rush, and finally arrived at the village where ogre lived.
　She yelled out the fellows.

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‘Everyone comes here! I have a yummy human!’

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　A lot of ogre gathered and looked into the empty tub.
‘He escaped on the way!’

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　Angry ogress turned back the mountain path and soon found the man.

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‘Wait!’

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‘No! Help me!’

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　He dived into the bush before the ogress catches his neck.

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　She looked scared the bush, she won’t go into.

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　He recited the Buddha with his body shivering.

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‘Namu Amida Butsu.’

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　The ogress went back and forth around the bush, after a time, she gave up and disappeared.

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‘I’m relieved… but, why am I saved?’
　 In fact, there’re a lot of Japanese iris growing at the bush.

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　The ogress thought the leaf of the iris as a sword, so she couldn’t close to him.

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　That day was May 5th.Even now, some people believe to put the iris on the rooftop as an amulet on May 5th.

The End

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