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手袋を買いに
寒い冬が北方から、狐の親子の棲んでいる森へもやって来ました。
或朝洞穴から子供の狐が出ようとしましたが、
「あっ」...
📄 6 pages
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猴子捞月
13 days ago
A troop of monkeys mistakes the moon reflection in a pond for the real thing and hatches a plan to rescue it - a traditional Chinese folk tale
📄 1 page
蜘蛛の糸
A sinner trapped in hell is offered an unlikely chance at salvation when Buddha lowers a spider thread from Paradise - by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
📄 5 pages
手袋を買いに
A young fox cub ventures alone into a human town on a snowy winter night to buy mittens for his frostbitten paws - by Nankichi Niimi
📄 6 pages
注文の多い料理店
Two arrogant hunters lost in the mountains encounter a mysterious restaurant, by Kenji Miyazawa
📄 9 pages
なぎなた
Wikipedia article about traditional Japanese polearm Naginata
📄 6 pages
抹茶
Wikipedia article about matcha
📄 17 pages