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OSHIDORI(mandarin-ducks)-a japonese history
How to became a priest
There was a falconer and hunter, named Sonjo, who lived in the
district called Tamura-no-Go, of the province of Mutsu. One day
he went out hunting, and could not find any game. But on his way
home, at a place called Akanuma, he perceived a pair of oshidori
(mandarin-ducks), swimming together in a river that he was about to
cross. to kill oshidori is not good; but Sonjo happened to be very
hungry, and he shot at the pair. His arrow pierced the male: the
female escaped into the rushes of the further shore, and
disappeared. Sonjo took the dead bird home, and cooked it.
That night he dreamed a
dreary dream. It seemed to him that a beautiful woman came
into his room, and stood by his pillow, and began to weep.
So bitterly did she
weep that Sonjo felt as if his heart were being torn out while he
listened. And the woman cried to him:
"Why,-- oh! why did you kill him?
-- of what wrong was he guilty?... At Akanuma we were
so happy together,-- and you killed him!... What harm did he ever
do you? Do you even know what you have done? -- oh! do you know
what a cruel, what a wicked thing you have done?... Me too you
have killed,-- for I will not live without my husband!...
Only to tell you this I came."... Then again she wept aloud,--
so bitterly that the voice of her crying pierced into the marrow
of the listener�s bones; -- and she sobbed out the words of
this poem:-- Hi kurureba Sasoeshi mono wo-- Akanuma no Makomo
no kure no Hitori-ne zo uki! ("At the coming of twilight
I invited him to return with me --! Now to sleep alone in the
shadow of the rushes of Akanuma--ah! what misery unspeakable!")
And after having uttered these verses she exclaimed:--
"Ah, you do not know -- you cannot know what you have
done! But to-morrow, when you go to Akanuma, you will see,--
you will see..." So saying, and weeping very piteously,
she went away. When Sonjo awoke in the morning, this dream
remained so vivid in his mind that he was greatly troubled.
He remembered the words:-- "But to-morrow, when you go to
Akanuma, you will see,-- you will see." And he resolved
to go there at once, that he might learn whether his dream was
anything more than a dream. So he went to Akanuma; and there,
when he came to the river-bank, he saw the female oshidori
swimming alone. In the same moment the bird perceived Sonjo;
but, instead of trying to escape, she swam straight towards him,
looking at him the while in a strange fixed way.
Then, with her beak, she suddenly tore open her own body,
and died before the hunter�s eyes...
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Sonjo shaved his head, and became a priest.