Japanese Folk Tale

Finding Treasures 73
the bag and left it in a long chest. He looked after a number of
days, and, sure enough, the chest was filled with coins.
A fragment?
Yamanashi, Nishiyatsushiro-gun: Kai 173, "The coins and the frog"
(Zeni to kaeru). Example.
Tochigi, Haga-gun: Shimotsuke 82, liThe mochi that turned into a
snake" (Hebi ni natta mochi). When the villagers saw it, it was
good wine, but when the priest saw it, it was a snake. These
stories are close to those in Nihon ryoiki and Konjaku monogatari.
Okayama: Mitsu 165, "The ohagi and the frog" (Ohagi to kaeru).
Fukuoka, Asakura-gun: Fukuoka 112, "Heaven helps a true heart"
(Magokoro wa ten tasuku). A mother-in-law hid mochi and told it
to turn into a frog if the bride found it. Then she found it.
There is no part about substituting a frog.
Kurate-gun: Fukuoka 79, "The greedy old woman" (Gajitsubo baba
ga). In this the bride substituted a frog for the mochi. The old
woman cried, "Don't jump! The bean powder will fall off."
Kumamoto, Amakusa-gun: Kyodo ken V l.J. l.J.7, "The ohagi and the frog"
(Ohagi to kaeru). About a mother-in-law and bride.
Nagasaki: Shimabara 2 l.J.O , "The frog botamochi" (Kaeru no botamochi).
Further reference:
Tabi to densetsu I l.J. 72. A Kishigo story. In this it is a snake. He
said, "It's me! Have you forgotten what I look like!"
Honcho koji innen shu (In Kohi daizen 63l.J.). At Iwami Ichiki a man
had a dream in which he saw coins at the foot of a tree. When he dug
them up they were iron, but when his neighbor dug them up they were
gold.
Seisuisho II 68. The line "Here, snake, have you forgotten how I
look" is repeated a number of times to be entertaining.
66. Misokai Bridge
Once upon a time there was an honest charcoal-maker named
Chokichi at Sawaage in Niugawa, Hida. He dreamed that if he went to
Misokai Bridge at Takayama, something good would happen, so he set
out immediately. A tofu maker came up to him and asked what he was
doing. He laughed when he heard Chokichi's answer. He said that
anyone who took dreams seriously was foolish. He said he had been
dreaming for some time that there was gold buried beneath a cryptomeria
tree by the house of Chokichi at Sa waage at the foot of Norikura,
but it was only a dream and he took no notice of it. When
Chokichi heard that, he went home and dug around the tree. He
promptly became very wealthy.
Fukushima, Iwaki-gun: Iwaki 37, "Luck's treasure" (Un no tama).
Gifu, Hida