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日本語 · N4

天狗の隠れ蓑

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In a certain mountain village, there lived a sly man named Hikoichi who was always slacking off.
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In the mountains, Hikoichi encountered a tengu who owned a mysterious "cloak of invisibility" that could make one vanish.
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The man held a bamboo tube to his eye and lied, saying, "If you use this, you can see distant scenery."
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Intrigued by curiosity, the tengu ended up trading his cloak of invisibility for the bamboo tube.
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Wearing the cloak and turning invisible, the man went to town and started helping himself to sake and dumplings.
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While the man took off the cloak and slept at home, his wife accidentally burned the dirty cloak.
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Angry, the man gathered the remaining ash and smeared it on his body, trying to make himself invisible once more.
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However, because he forgot to apply ash to the tip of his nose, only his nose was floating in plain sight.
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The townspeople spotted the strange nose floating in midair and chased the man with sticks.
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The crafty man jumped into the river, the ash washed off, and his true identity was completely exposed.

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