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ネコの真似したお嫁さん
イラスト myi   ブログ sorairoiro

A Bride Copied A Cat

(Short stories of Edo)

Translation ちいさな翻訳屋さん

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子猫の折り紙Cat   猫の顔の折り紙Cat Face

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 Once upon a time, there was a very honest girl in a village in a mountain.


 One day, a bearer from a neighboring village came to the girl.

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“I want this girl to marry me,”

he said.

 The girl’s mother thought,

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity we can’t miss.”

 She called her daughter at once and said,

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“Look.

 For a while after you marry into his family, stay calm like a cat which just came to a new house.”

“OK. I’ll act like a cat.”

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 When the girl looked around the kitchen, a calico cat which their family had just gotten from someone was dozing off on the cover of the furnace.

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 Before long, the girl got married and started living in her husband’s house.

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 On the next day of the marriage,

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 the girl who got up the earliest out of everybody put a fire into the furnace to cook rice.

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 Meanwhile, she thought,

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“Oh, yes. I have to act like a cat.”

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 She went up to the cover of the furnace and sat on it.

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 Then her mother-in-law came to the kitchen.

“You could’ve slept more,”

she said with her sleepy eyes.

 She was surprised to find her daughter-in-law sitting on the cover of the furnace.

 She asked, “Holy cow! What are you doing up there?”

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 Then her mother-in-law stroked her face with her hand and mimicked a cat.

“Meow, meow, meow,”

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 she prettily replied to her mother-in-law, but she was kicked out of the house within the day because she was thought to be creepy.

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