Extra Reading Diary [Japanese]

The Goblin of Adachigahara:

• Adachigahara-a large plain haunted by a goblin that disguises itself as an old woman who eats only human flesh.
• An old priest who lost his way came wandering around the plains. It was late and no one was there to warn him about the goblin. He stumbled upon a worn down cottage and asks the old lady residing there to stay for the night.
• She tells him she can only offer him miserable conditions and reluctantly agrees. 
• After supper, the fire dies out and the old lady goes out to find more wood. She tells him to don't go to the inner room but he started to get suspicious and it made him curious. 
• He finds that the room is full of human bones and suspects her as the cannibal goblin. 
• He runs out of the house and she tries to stop him. He prays to Buddha and was able to escape. 

The Ogre of Rashomon:

Ogre

• Another cannibal story
• Raiko-general who killed a band of ogres who was always followed by five faithful knights
• Hojo gossips about the Ogre of Rashomon. Wantanabe discredits him and asks how he could listen to an old woman's story with such belief.
• Upset, Wantanabe goes to prove the ogre is real by riding up to the gate of Rashomon he brings paper with the names of the knights he plans to plant for proof. 
• There was a bad storm but he still reached the gate. He realized nothing was there and planted the paper on the gates. However, when he turned to leave, the ogre grabbed him by the helmet.
• Knowing that Wantanabe is not afraid of him, the ogre tries to flee. The knight goes after him.
• The ogre gets away from him but he notices that he must have sliced his arm off during the struggle. He takes it as a prize, growing obsessed with it, never keeping it out of his sight.
• One day an old lady comes to the house and claims to be his old nurse when he was a child. Feeling sentimental, he lets her in. 
• She tells him that her dying wish is to see the arm but he refuses. Sounds sketchy. But she guilts him into it. Typical. Turns out it was the ogre disguised as the old woman and takes back the arm. 
• Wantanabe tries to catch him but he got away again. He was not able to kill the ogre but it was so afraid of him he never bothered Kyoto again. 

The Story of Princess Hase:

• A prince and princess could not have a child so they went on a pilgrimage to see the heavenly mother. Alas, they names her Hase-Hime after the location. Hase's mother eventually died and told her to be a good girl. The prince re married a cruel woman who did not like her step daughter. Hase was very good at the koto (Japanese harp), and when she was 12, her and her step mother were summoned to play before the emperor. 
• Her step mother played the flute but she was lazy and did not practice. She broke down and had to ask someone else to play for her. Failing at her task, she became jealous of Hase. 
• She was kind of useless. The step mother accidentally kills her son, when he drinks the poison laced wine meant for Hase. She hated her even more now.
• There was a flood. If Hase was so good at poetry, she will offer one up in prayer and stop the flood. It worked, she got a rank. Her stepmother is a hater and told one of her servants to kill the girl, making up some story. 
• He ended up not killing her but basically holding her hostage. Hames had faith that her father would look for her as soon as he found she was missing.
• He found her, the step mother fled, and Hase married the prince's adopted son. She had a son of her own and all was well. 

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