What the record says

On the morning of the fifteenth of the first month, it is said, the yamauba sets rice cakes floating down the mountain stream. Eating the yamauba's rice cakes makes the body strong. She pounds them on the fourteenth, with a mortar and pestle of pine, so they smell of pine.

Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.

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