There Once Was a poor woman who had two children
named Kikyou and Kaede. Kikyou had to go every day
into the forest to fetch wood. Once, when she had gone
a long way to seek it, a young hanyou who was quite
strong can and helped her industriously to pick up the
wood and carry it home, and before a moment had
passed, the strange hanyou dissapeared. Kikyou told
her mother this, but at first she would not believe it.
At length, she brought a rose home, and told her mother
that the beautiful hanyou had given her this rose, and
had told her that when it was in full bloom, he would
return. The mother put the rose in water. One morning
Kikyou could not get out of bed. The mother went to
the bed and found her dead, but looking very happy.
On the same morning, the rose was in full bloom.