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The red man thus made answer: "You are evidently not aware that I am a Shojō, and that I live near the Sea…

Date of account: Traditional material presented in a work published 1913
Source: Myths & Legends of Japan
Reference: Myths & Legends of Japan · selected passage 170
Rights: public_domain
Language: English retelling of Japanese traditions
Translation: F. Hadland Davis
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The red man thus made answer: "You are evidently not aware that I am a Shojō, and that I live near the Sea Dragon's Palace

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The red man thus made answer: "You are evidently not aware that I am a _Shojō_, and that I live near the Sea Dragon's Palace. When I heard of the sudden appearance of Mount Fuji I came here to see it, assured that such an event was a good omen and foretold of the prosperity and perpetuity of Japan. While enjoying the beauty of this fair mountain I met Koyuri, and had the good fortune to save his honest father's life by giving him some of our sacred white _saké_ that restores youth to human beings, together with an increase in years, while to _Shojō_ it vanquishes death. Koyuri's father is a good man, and the _saké_ was thus able to exert its full and beneficent power upon him; but you are greedy and selfish, and to all such this _saké_ is poison."

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