Japanese Folk Tale

Stepchildren Stories 45
The girls got fixed up to be compared, but, of course, the older was
lovelier and was chosen. The younger girl said she wanted to ride a
splendid sedan chair and go off as a bride, too. Her mother dressed
her up and set her on a hand cart and pulled it along, calling, "Anyone
want a bride?" Her girl fell off the cart into a rice paddy and turned
into a mudsnail, and the mother fell into the sluice and turned into a
sluice clam.
Aomori, Tsugaru, Nanatsuishi
Aomori: Tsugaru m 72, "The girl who became a mudsnail" (Tsubu ni
natta aneko no hanashi). Example; Tsugaru k 21, 23. No titles;
Nihon shu, jo 122, "Komebukuro, Awabukuro."
Hachinohe: MK II 4 44, "Nukabukuro, Awabukuro." Four stories.
Iwate: Kunohe 492, "Komeko, Nukako."
Waga-gun: MK I 4 33, "Nukafuku, Akezara." Tasks include gathering
acorns, gathering invisible shellfish, breaking a branch with a
sparrow on it, etc. Akezara turns into a mudsnail at the end.
Shiwa-gun: Shiwa-shu 23 "Nukabuku, Komebuku"; Shiwa 140, "Nuka-:
bukuro, Akezara."
Isawa-gun: Kogane 70, "How the yamababa saved the girl" (Yamababa
ga musume 0 suku ta hanashi).
Hienuki-gun: MK I 6 33, "Nukabukuro, Benizara."
Kamihei-gun: Tono 103 No. 118. No title.
Iwate-gun: Dai-ichi 31, "Komebuku, Awabuku."
Akita, Kazuno-gun: Dai-ichi 40, "Komebuki, Awabuki."
Fukushima, Futaba-gun: MK II 4 38, "Nukabukuro, Benizara."
Iwaki-gun: Iwaki 27, 188, "The child by a former marriage and the
stepchild" (Tsurego to mamako).
Niigata, Minamikanbara-gun: Kamuhara 66, 144, Notes 23 and 44. There
are not two sisters in the latter. Its boundaries are clear.
Nagano: Shimominochi 196, "Nukaboko, Komeboko."
Minamiazumi-gun: Dai-ichi 51, "Nuka, Kome."
Yamanashi, Nishiyatsushiro-gun: Zoku Kai 149, "Snow Maid and Crow
Maid" (Yukimusume, Karasumusume).
Kazusa (Chiba): Minzokugaku IV 3 30, "The Kazusa Cinderella" (Kazusa
no Shinderera no monogatari). The names are Kushime and Tokume.
Ibaraki, Inashiki-gun: Kosho 8 8, "Awabukuro, Komebukuro."
Shizuoka, Ogasa-gun: Shizuoka 406, "The stepmother and her stepchild"
(Mamahaha to mamako no hanashi).
Ibara-gun: Shizuoka 398, "The stepmother and her stepchild"
(Mamahaha to mamako no hanashi).
Shiga, Takashima-gun: MK I 10 47, "The stepchild and the real child"
(Mamako to honko no hanashi). Two stories.
Nara, Soekami-gun: Yamato 298, "The selfheal flower" (Utsubogusa no
hana). It tells the reason for the flower'S shape.
Hyogo, Mikata-gun: MK II 7 38, "When the stepchild gathered chestnuts"
(Mamako no kuri hiroi).
Tottori, Yazu-gun: MK I 10 35, "Nukabuku, Akezara."
Okayama: Okayama bun II 2 60, "About the stepchild" (Mamako no
hanashi).