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.