Gosaku was quite happy to have such a wife, and so a few months passed. But then one morning, he not
Gosaku was quite happy to have such a wife, and so a few months passed. But then one morning, he noticed something odd. Before he knew it (知らないうちに, shiranai uchini), the rice and miso had rapidly (ずんずん, zunzun) disappeared. “Dear me, that’s odd.”One day, he left the house with the pretense (ふり, furi) of going to sell some buckets (おけ, oke). But on the way (とちゅう, tochuu), he retraced his steps (ひきかえす, hikikaesu), and quietly from the loft/attic (やねうら, yaneura) he peered down on his wife….. where he saw his non-eating wife with a large plate with huge heaps (何ばいも, manyfold) of rice…. -- source link
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