{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_27456/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_27456","id":"gutenberg_27456","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27456","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Children's stories, Japanese","Fairy tales -- Japan","Mice -- Juvenile fiction","Weddings -- Juvenile fiction"],"text":"Produced by Louise Hope\n\n\n\n\n\n[The original book had illustrations on almost all pages.\nTheir location has not been individually marked. The\ninconsistent hyphenization of \"cuttle-fish\" is in the\noriginal.]\n\n\n\n\nJAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES NO. 6\n\nTHE MOUSE'S WEDDING.\n\n\nGriffith Farran & Co., London & Sydney, N.S.W.\n\n\n\n\n  Kobunsha : Tokyo\n\n\n\n\nTHE\n\nMOUSE'S WEDDING.\n\n\nA long time ago there was a white mouse called\nKanemochi, servant of Daikoku, the God of Wealth.\nHis wife's name was Onaga. Both Kanemochi and his\nwife were very discreet. Never in the day time nor\neven at night did they venture into the parlor or\nkitchen, and so they lived in tranquility free from\ndanger of meeting the cat. Their only son Fukutaro\nalso was of a gentle disposition. When he was old\nenough to take a wife, his parents concluded to get\nhim one, transfer their property to him, and seek\nretirement. Fortunately, one of their relatives\nnamed Chudayu had a lovely daughter called Hatsuka.\nAccordingly a go-between was employed to enter into\nnegotiations with Chudayu respecting the marriage.\nWhen the young folks were allowed to see each other,\nneither party objected, and so presents were\nexchanged.\n\nThe bridegroom sent the bride the usual articles:\nan obi or belt, silk cotton, dried bonito, dried\ncuttle fish, white flax, sea-weed, and _sake_ or\nrice wine. The bride sent the bridegroom in like\nmanner: a linen _kami-shimo_, dried bonito, dried\ncuttle-fish, white flax, sea-weed, fish, and\n_sake_; thus confirming the marriage promise.\n\nA lucky day was then chosen, and every thing\nprepared for the bride's removal to her new home,\nher clothes were cut out and made, and needed\narticles purchased. So Chudayu was kept busy\npreparing for the wedding.\n\nThe parents made their daughter Hatsuka blacken her\nteeth as a sign that she would not marry a second\nhusband; they also carefully taught her that\nshe must obey her husband, be dutiful to her\nfather-in-law, and love her mother-in-law.\n\nKanemochi on his part cleaned up his house inside\nand out, made preparation for the marriage ceremony\nand feast, assembled his relatives and friends, and\nsent out many of his servants to meet the bride on\nher way, and to give notice of her approach, that\nall might be prepared for her reception.\n\nSoon the bride came in her palanquin with her boxes\ncarried before her, and a long train of attendants\nfollowing her. Kanemochi went out as far as the gate\nto meet her, and ushered her into the parlor.\n\nAt a signal from the go-between the bride and\nbridegroom, to confirm the marriage bond, exchanged\nbetween themselves three cups of _sake_, drinking\nthree times from each cup in turns. When this\nceremony, the \"three times three\" was ended, the\nguests exchanged cups with the bride in token of\ngood will, and thus the union was consummated.\n\nShortly afterwards the bride, her husband, and his\nparents visited her home. In the evening the bride\nreturned home with her husband and his parents with\nwhom she lived in harmony, contented, prosperous and\nhappy, and much to be congratulated.\n\n\n  Printed by the Kobunsha in Tokyo, Japan\n\n\n\n\n  The Kobunsha's\n  Japanese Fairy Tale Series.\n\n   1. Momotaro or Little Peachling.\n   2. The Tongue Cut Sparrow.\n   3. The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab.\n   4. The Old Man who made the Dead Trees Blossom.\n   5. Kachi-Kachi Mountain.\n   6. The Mouse's Wedding.\n   7. The Old Man and the Devils.\n   8. Urashima, the Fisher-Boy.\n   9. The Eight-Headed Serpent.\n  10. The Matsuyama Mirror.\n  11. The Hare of Inaba.\n  12. The Cub's Triumph.\n  13. The Silly Jelly-Fish.\n  14. The Princes, Fire-flash and Fire-fade.\n  15. My Lord Bag-O'-Rice.\n  16. The Wooden Bowl.\n\n  _Copyright reserved_","title":"The Mouse's Wedding","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":608}