All Episodes of Folktales from Japan
Browse all episodes of Folktales from Japan
All Episodes of Folktales from Japan
Browse all episodes of Folktales from Japan
Season 1
N/A/100 votesThe Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom; The Man Who Bought Dreams; The Rat Sutra
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2012
In this episode, a dog rewards a kind master, and an old woman's gift is repaid, and a man buys a dream. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Takuo Suzuki, Norio Yazawa, Hiroshi Fukutomi
Writer: Masumi Hirayanagi, Satoshi Namiki
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Little One Inch, The Rolling Rice Ball, The Cow's Marriage
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2012
In this episode, the small shows the biggest bravery, and old man’s accidental gift is repaid, and the lazy man gets the cow. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Hiromitsu Morita, Takamitsu Yukawa, Toshio Hirata
Writer: Unknown
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The Old Man and His Bump, The Transforming Hood, The Love Potion
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2012
An old man with a bump dances for a demon band, a fox gets tricked, and a love potion backfires horribly. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Shinya Takahashi, Takuo Suzuki, Yuko Kiyoshima
Writer: Unknown
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Strong Tarou, The Village of the Nightengales, Hirabayashi
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2012
A couple creates a child from dirt, a woodcutter breaks his promise, and in the last tale we learn the meaning of “Hirarin, Heirin, Tairarin, Tairabayashi and Ippachijuu no Mokumoku, and Hitotsutoyattsudetokkikki” Source: crunchyroll
Director: Ai Suzuki, Noko Yukawa, Toshiyuki Honda
Writer: Unknown
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Urashima Tarou, The Monkey Buddha, Comparing Treasures
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2012
A Fisherman’s is given a gift that turns about to be a curse, monkeys worship a Buddha without getting their butts wet, and a merchant learns what is important in life. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Yumiko Suda, Hiroshi Harada, Kazuo Nogami
Writer: Unknown
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Kintarou, The Two Squid, The Three Cry
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/6/2012
We learn the tale of Sakata no Kintoki, a lord learns more than expected, and sometimes you have to cry to move on. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Hiromitsu Morita, Mitsuo Kobayashi, Masakazu Higuchi
Writer: Unknown
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Princess Kaguya; The Demonic Little Sister; Scary Meat Buns
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/12/2012
An elderly couple is blessed with a daughter born from a bamboo stalk, a little boy’s sister has become a real demon, and a worker is terrified of meat buns. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Female Fox / Hirabayashi / The Wild Warrior and the Ox Cart
Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 6/23/2013
Monkey steals a baby, Hirarin, Heirin, Tairarin, Tairabayashi and Ippachijuu no Mokumoku, and Hitotsutoyattsudetokkikki , and legendary heros can't catch a break. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Monkey Masamune / The Days Pass So Fast / The Woodcutter & the Mountain Grannie
Season 1 Episode 66 - Aired 7/7/2013
A runner saves a group of monkeys at an expensive cost, the Sun, Moon, and Thunder come to an agreement, and a Woodcutter gets the last laugh. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Minister Yuriwaka / The Fire Man / The Priest and the Boy and the Poisonous Mochi
Season 1 Episode 67 - Aired 7/14/2013
A southern ruler named Yuriwaka is abandoned on an island. An old man brings home a boy named "Fire Man". A stingy priest tells the children at his temple that his snacks are made of poison, but... Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Talking Fish / Urashima Tarou / The Demon`s Handprint
Season 1 Episode 68 - Aired 7/21/2013
A stranger comes to a fishing village, which plans to catch lots of fish through poisoning the river. As the villagers debate, they are warned against this by a traveling priest. A fisherman saves a little turtle and is taken to an undersea palace. Two boys go to ask the fire god to help them with a demon who's been raiding their village. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Swallow with the Broken Leg / Left Behind / The Legend of the Nine-Headed Dragon
Season 1 Episode 69 - Aired 7/28/2013
An old man saves a broken swallow, who rewards him with a magic watermelon seed. A man encounters a terrifying ghost at a haunted stream. A traveling priest visits a village where an evil dragon is devouring virgin sacrifices. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Tree in the Pot / Princess Kaguya / The Monk and the Fox
Season 1 Episode 71 - Aired 8/11/2013
A fallen lord sacrifices his prized possessions for a traveling monk. A princess is found in a stalk of bamboo. A priest tricks a fox, and finds himself confronted by the lost souls of hell. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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A Story of Futons / Chakurikakifu / The Dancing Bones
Season 1 Episode 73 - Aired 8/25/2013
The ghostly voices of children cry out at night from a haunted bed. A man tries a new strategy to sell his wares. The dancing bones of a murdered man bring fame and wealth to the one who killed him. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Dandarabochi and the Giant Sandals / The Painted Wife / The Fox in the Bag
Season 1 Episode 74 - Aired 9/1/2013
A titan lays seige to a small fishing village. An evil lord steals a man's beautiful wife. Friends of a lord plot to take back his money from a fox haunting a graveyard. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Unspeaking Okiku / Ubasute Mountain / The Sumo Wrestler`s Little Sister
Season 1 Episode 76 - Aired 9/15/2013
A girl sings a song, and her father is sacrificed. A son is tasked with taking his mother to the mountains, where she will left to die. A tense hostage situation at a sumo wrestler's dojo. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Monkey Crab / The Straw Headman / Head Lake
Season 1 Episode 77 - Aired 9/22/2013
Crabs seek revenge upon a monkey for wounding their mother, and are aided by a mortar and cow poop. A divine oracle leads a man to riches. A man's head becomes the scene of strange happenings. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Little Chestnut / The Day the Kappa Came / The Oryuu Willow
Season 1 Episode 79 - Aired 10/6/2013
A massive pumpkin grows from a tiny vine, and a man is very happy. Parents hear from the mountain god and water god that their child will be stolen by Kappas on his twelfth birthday. A huge willow stands in front of a tea shop. The son of the shop saves it from being cut down. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Silver Temple / The Pebble Letter / The Famous Blade Kisenbamaru
Season 1 Episode 80 - Aired 10/13/2013
Midon the fisherman is wounded and can't go fishing. He borrows money from a samurai, but can't pay it back. A wife gets mad at her drunkard husband and returns to her parents. But she misses her husband now that she's left him. A young servant named Sutekichi loves katanas. He wants his own, so he pays a blacksmith with a thousand logs to make one for him. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Sparrow with the Severed Tongue / The Horse Mountain Woman / The Dance of the Cats
Season 1 Episode 81 - Aired 10/20/2013
An old man loved a swallow, but when it eats his wifes glue, she cuts out its tongue. He goes deep into the mountains to find her... A packdriver buys a good horse in town, and then some mackeral to give to the god of horses. Shinkichi works at a soy sauce shop, but since he's so careless everyone treats him like a child. Source: crunchyroll
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The Ear Statue / The Centipede Gets the Doctor / Benten`s Swamp
Season 1 Episode 82 - Aired 10/27/2013
A statue by the river reminds a boy of his dead mother. His stepmom tells him that if the statue will eat a rice ball, he can have one too, so off he goes. The insect children are playing in the depths of the forest when walking stick falls from a tree and starts to cry. One late night, a pack driver is returning home when he meets a beautiful woman. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Village of the Dragonflies / The White Rabbit of Inaba / The Fortune Telling Competition
Season 1 Episode 83 - Aired 11/3/2013
A fisherman's wife dies from illness, and he meets a woman who looks just like her on the rocks of a cape. The white rabbit who lives on the island of Inaba tries to trick the crocodiles to let him cross the sea, but they strip off his skin. Doujimaru is said to be the son of the white fox, and to have inherited his mother's mysterious powers. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Three Masks / The Tengu`s Cloak / The Flying Door
Season 1 Episode 84 - Aired 11/10/2013
A young servant girl is given a demon mask as a goodbye present, and goes to a new place to work. A young boy learns that if you put on a Tengu's cape you'll be invisible. He steals the cape from the Tengu, and now he can play all the tricks he wants, but... "We've saved this money up for the future. Don't waste it," an old husband tells his silly wife... but then, a pair of thieves come when he's not home. Source: crunchyroll
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The Old Woman and the Giant Octopus / Dokkoisho / The Tengu of Ashitaka Mountain
Season 1 Episode 85 - Aired 11/17/2013
An old woman cuts off the leg of an octopus on the beach, and gets rich by selling it at the market. A groom is given botamochi rice balls at his bride's village. He wants his mom to make them, so he keeps saying "botamochi" on the way home, but then he trips and rises up saying, "dokkoisho! A strong-willed and hardworking mother goes all alone to Ashitaka Mountain, where a Tengu lives. But she doesn't come back. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Mysterious Blacksmith / The Fox Gives Birth / Senkamejo
Season 1 Episode 86 - Aired 11/24/2013
"If I can make a hundred swords in a night, give me your daughter," a traveler says, and locks himself in a blacksmith's forge. There was a mean doctor who lived in a village. One night, he goes to a mansion to save a young girl who's having a hard birth. Senkamejo grew up spoiled by her mother, and was the prettiest girl in town, but selfish and arrogant. One day she hears that a beautiful statue of Kannon-sama is at the temple, and she and her mother go to see it. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Cracking Mountain / The Three Charms / The Kappa and the Handwashing Basin
Season 1 Episode 87 - Aired 12/1/2013
A raccoon badly injures a kind old woman. The rabbit hears about this from her husband, and angrily avenges her. A child is picking up chestnuts in the forest, and before he knows it it's night. A demon grannie catches him. A new hand washing basin has been put in the village shrine. But the kappa used this stone to sit on and think or keep watch. Source: crunchyroll
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The Ghost Well / The Man Who Bought Dreams / Tougorou the Potato Digger
Season 1 Episode 88 - Aired 12/8/2013
A mysterious woman visits a candy store every night. The owner follows her after she leaves, but she disappears into a grave... A traveling merchant buys his partner's dream of treasure for a lot of money. The beautiful daughter of a rich man is sent to marry tougorou the potato digger. Tougorou is lonely and miserable and poor in the mountains, but one day... Source: crunchyroll
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Sacrificial Inari / The Crane Repays a Debt / The Monster in the Cotton Hat
Season 1 Episode 89 - Aired 12/15/2013
A field worker named Manzou gets a small field with a shrine from the rich man. A charcoal-maker takes pity on a crane being sold by the road, and pays money to free it. An old man loves to fish at night at a waterfall. He gets old and decides to retire, and gives his fishing pole to a young man. Source: crunchyroll
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The Joroku Statue / The God of Poverty / The Carp in the Basin
Season 1 Episode 90 - Aired 12/22/2013
A huge rock saves a village from a flood. The villagers use it to make a giant statue, but the statue is too big to carry to the temple. But then the statue... A poor old man goes to sell balls of thread for new years. Gorouhei, a poor man, trades an old basin from his family for rice. Source: crunchyroll
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The Gold Horse of New Year`s Eve / The Jizo Statue with the Hat / Odote-sama
Season 1 Episode 91 - Aired 12/29/2013
A couple works hard but is still poor, and meets the new year with a sigh. On new years, a man can't sell his hemp so he trades it for an umbrella. An honest cow-herd meets a strange monster who can read thoughts. Source: crunchyroll
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The Safflower Ship / Twelve Signs of the Zodiac / Sent Salt
Season 1 Episode 92 - Aired 1/5/2014
There is a splendid picture of a rooster in the room where the crimson flower merchant says. And they say that it crows at midnight. God creates the calendar to rule the world, and wants the animals to protect it. The animals all rush to God's temple on new years. But the rat lies to the cat. Zenzaemon, of Kishou Swamp, is sent to learn the secrets of salt-making from Akou Province and is caught. But official Ooishi Kuranosuke is moved by his devotion to his homeland, and lets him go. Source: crunchyroll
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The Deer Springs / Tail Fishing / Hachiroutarou
Season 1 Episode 93 - Aired 1/12/2014
A woodcutter meets a wounded deer in the mountains. He saves it from a hunter and watches until its wounds are healed... The Fox comes to see the river otter, who is good at catching fish. He takes fish from the river otter but never gives any himself. And so the River Otter comes up with an idea... A young man in the village of Matagi, Hachirou Tarou, goes to the mountains with two of his friends, but as he gets ready for dinner he gives into his hunger and eats their fish. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Herring and Grannie / The Wind God and the Children / Will of the Spider
Season 1 Episode 94 - Aired 1/19/2014
An old woman loses her husband in a storm, but a statue of a god washes up with his boat and she worships it. One day in early spring, as the children are playing, a young man suddenly appears. A young carpenter is trying to build a bridge across a river, but every storm that comes washes it away. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Snake Lake / The Deep Voice / The Priest, the Kid, and the Fava Bean Tree
Season 1 Episode 95 - Aired 1/26/2014
Governot Shimada has come to Kazusa, where there is no water and the harvest is dependant on the rain. Two men tie a pipe between their houses so they can talk even when they're snowed in. Even though they were alone, they could cheer each other up by talking, but then they stop getting answers... The priest tries to raise a fava bean tree to help the starving villagers, but the kids at the temple eat it. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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Sumo Inari / The Fava Bean, Straw, and Charcoal / The Man of the East & the Man of the West
Season 1 Episode 96 - Aired 2/2/2014
The lord of a poor province is sad to see how weak his sumo wrestlers are for this year's tournament, but they all defeat even the strongest wrestlers. A fava bean, a piece of straw, and a piece of charcoal all bounce out of an old woman's kitchen and decide to visit Ise. There are two men who live on the east and west side of town, and each night they come to a bar to drink. They always drink the same drink, and insult each other. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Stink Vine / Shippei-Tarou / Half-Naked Buhyou
Season 1 Episode 97 - Aired 2/9/2014
The stinkvine weed smelled terrible, and the big tree always made fun of it. To save a girl from a demon, a traveling monk goes to find the one thing it fears, "Shippeitarou." Buhei is a man proud of his strength. Source: crunchyroll
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The Wispering Vinegar / The Old Man Who Swallowed Birds / The Tengu and the Sky Journey
Season 1 Episode 98 - Aired 2/16/2014
There is a man who can hear the voices of the vinegar he makes. A bird gets its leg stuck in a rice ball. There was a young man who was afraid of nothing. Source: crunchyroll
Director: Unknown
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The Snow Woman / Oshira-sama / The 600-Year-Old Woman
Season 1 Episode 99 - Aired 2/23/2014
A young woodcutter seeks shelter from a blizzard with his master. A young woman has a horse she loves. After the battle between the Heike and the Genji, a young girl finds a conch shell on the beach that she feeds to her mom. Source: crunchyroll
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Cowlove Pass / Momotarou / Seibei the Soba Eater
Season 1 Episode 100 - Aired 3/2/2014
Cowherd Okaru took care of a young black calf that transformed into a handsome young man when it was three years old. Momotarou is born from a peach, and raised by an old couple into a strong young boy. Seibei is known as a man who loves to eat soba noodles. Source: crunchyroll
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The Demon Who Became a Rock / Octopuses Don`t Have Bones / Ryuuguu Abyss
Season 1 Episode 101 - Aired 3/9/2014
A demon and his son live in the mountains. The princess of Ryuuguu castle has a baby. Taikichi, who always gives an offering to the Ryuuguu Abyss, is given a wife and child by Ryuuguu Palace. Source: crunchyroll
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Raita and the Demon / `O` Is Hard / The Burnt Statue
Season 1 Episode 102 - Aired 3/16/2014
Asakichi and his wife save the thunder when it falls from heaven. A rough country girl who doesn't know how to be polite says "o" in front of everything because her mom tells her to. A young, hardworking girl is to be adopted by her master, but his jealous wife makes her quit while the master is away. Source: crunchyroll
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Gonpachi and Tsubaki / The Thousand League Sandals / Mother and Child Hill
Season 1 Episode 103 - Aired 3/23/2014
Gonpachi was working hard at a gold mine to raise money for his family. Three brothers get lost in the mountains and find themselves at the house of a terrifying mountain grannie. A traveler comes to an inn on the Sumidagawa river. She's looking for her son who vanishes. Source: crunchyroll
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The Mountain Grannie of Mt. Choufuku / Sadaroku and Shiro / Zashiki-Warashi
Season 1 Episode 105 - Aired 4/6/2014
The mountain grannie has given birth to a child and the villagers are told to bring Mochi. The talented hunter Sadaroku is never found without his hunting dog, Shiro. He has a license to hunt wherever he wants, but one day he leaves it at home and is arrested. A traveling medicine seller stays at a mansion where he is visited by three young children in a dream. They were Zashiki Warashi, said to bring prosperity. Source: crunchyroll
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Render the Fat / The Star Wife / The Rich Kashiki
Season 1 Episode 106 - Aired 4/13/2014
A lazy man who wants to not work goes to a mansion where they feed him feasts every day. The eldest of the seven sisters of the big dipper falls in love with a man. A man on a fishing ship who makes the food, called a Kashiki, gave the leftovers to the fish. Source: crunchyroll
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The Phoenix / The Wood Buddha and the Gold Buddha / Shibahama
Season 1 Episode 107 - Aired 4/20/2014
The people of a village are beset by a firebird. They call upon the Lion King to protect them, and a great battle begins. A wooden buddha made by a faithful believer and a rich man's golden buddha have a sumo match. The rich man bets everything he owns, and the young man offers to become his servant forever, as a strange battle behinds. A lazy drunkard finds a wallet and uses it to throw a huge party. But when he wakes up it was a dream...!? Source: crunchyroll
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The Monk and the Turtle / Kijimuna / The Stingy Memorial
Season 1 Episode 108 - Aired 4/27/2014
The monk and the turtle: A travelling monk saves a turtle, and the turtle later saves the monks life. The turtle reappears when the monk is in grave danger. Kijimuna: A mountain occurs near a small village, and the guardian tree of the village is burnt down. A mischievous fairy called a Kijimuna appears to beg for food, but he has a very good reasons. The stingy funeral: There was once a very stingy man. He doesn't know who to give his money to when he dies. So he asks his three sons what kind of funeral they'd give him. Source: crunchyroll
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The Sending Star / The Promise with the Master of the River / Gonbei the Duck Hunter
Season 1 Episode 109 - Aired 5/4/2014
The Sending Star: A young, hard-working man hears that his grandmother is dying. He visits her house and sees that she is fine. On his way home, he finds himself in great peril... A promise with the master of the river: A boy is born and it is prophesied that his life will be taken by the master of the river when he turns 18. The year of his 18th birthday, a huge rain causes the river to almost flood. Gonbei the Duck Hunter: A hunter named Gonbei ties a rope around the legs of 50 ducks stuck in the water, but when it melts they fly off, dragging him towards a great adventure. Source: crunchyroll
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Takohachi the Headman / The Rich Man and Bracken / The Wife`s Talent
Season 1 Episode 110 - Aired 5/11/2014
With the help of his loving son, an old octopus fisher goes on a trip. There was a very rich man who promised to pluck all the warabi off the mountain in a single day. An old couple turn to fraud to make more money at their store, but drive customers away. Source: crunchyroll
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Eating in Order / The Old Woman Who Became a God / Yayoi`s Ship
Season 1 Episode 111 - Aired 5/18/2014
A master hunter goes to the mountain, where he has a dream of a frog eating a worm, and then being eaten by a snake. An Ainu village is attacked, and an old woman and her grandson Tonkuru escape into the forest where they get separated. A girl named Yayoi crosses the mountains every day to go to work, and each day she would talk to a tree. Source: crunchyroll
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Masakichi and the Jizo Statue / The Bee and the Bandit / The God of Death
Season 1 Episode 112 - Aired 5/25/2014
Masakichi, a fisherman who picked up a priest statue from a wrecked ship, is visited by it in his dreams. The merchants of Kyoto are attacked by bandits. They manage to escape but their horses and goods are stolen. A loser meets the god of death, who tells him to become a doctor. He does as he's told and immediately becomes very rich... Source: crunchyroll
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The Sun and the Golden Rope / The Kid and the 31 Characters / Ushiwakamaru
Season 1 Episode 113 - Aired 6/1/2014
A mother raises two sons alone after her husband dies. A boy at a temple hides two buns to give them to a kind family, but snow falls and he doesn't know where they are... The Tengu of Mt. Kurama gives Ushiwakamaru his father's sword, and trains him to become a great samurai. Source: crunchyroll
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The Trout Repays a Debt / The Foreigner`s Cowbones / The Six Warriors
Season 1 Episode 114 - Aired 6/8/2014
A man works hard at tilling an arid field near a river. A girl saves his mother from drowning and he marries her. A foreign ship crashes near a small fishing village.A young man leaves on a journey to become strong, and encounters more and more friends with surprising talents. Source: crunchyroll
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Matsu Goes to Ise / The Zatou`s Tree / The Powerful Servant
Season 1 Episode 115 - Aired 6/15/2014
A young man meets an old man on the way to Ise, and promises to visit his village. A boatman saves a blind man from a flood, but the blind man dies. A rich man has a very powerful servant. The servant is smart, too, so the rich man gives him one challenge after another. Source: crunchyroll
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The Weasel and the Rat / Kotaro and the Dragon / The Thunder God and the Girl
Season 1 Episode 116 - Aired 6/29/2014
A weasel and a rat plant a field with chestnuts because they're starving. Kotaro goes to visit his mother up the river when the woman who raised him dies. A lightning god comes to Earth and finds a woman who he falls in love with. Source: crunchyroll
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The Treasure Swamp / Tatsukohime / Kurohime and the Dragon
Season 1 Episode 117 - Aired 7/6/2014
A rich man learns of a treasure in a swamp and forces his servants to drain it. Tatsuko goes to a shrine in the mountain every night seeking eternal beauty. The black dragon, who is the master of a huge swamp, wants to marry the beautiful Kurohime. Source: crunchyroll
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The Carried Priest / The Man Who Knew Hell / The Ghost Ladle
Season 1 Episode 118 - Aired 7/13/2014
Late one night, a thief tricks a priest into letting him ride on his shoulders, hoping to steal the priest's cloak. A priest stays the night at an old temple, where he sees demons torturing a young girl. A sailor is attacked by ghost ships in the Seto Inland Sea, and is the only survivor. Source: crunchyroll
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The Bride on a Hazy Moonlit Night / Hitomokko Mountain / The Flying Shed
Season 1 Episode 119 - Aired 7/20/2014
A poor young man lets a traveling girl stay the night in his hut, and ends up marrying her. Two giants compete to build the largest mountain in Japan. A rich man sends a letter to a local priest. If he'll come to the rich man's house and pray, he'll be given a barrel of rice. Source: crunchyroll
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Ikkyuu-san Defeats the Tiger / The Mountain God and the Child / Tsurumizuka
Season 1 Episode 120 - Aired 7/27/2014
Ikkyuu is a smart young man. The shogun hears about him and gives him a difficult task: defeating a tiger that lives inside a painting. A child meets an old man in the mountains who tells him that if he goes to the mountain god's shrine and prays, his wish will come true. An old man saves a crane who's been caught by some children. Source: crunchyroll
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The Mole and the Sun / The Fox Repays a Debt / Drinking Tea
Season 1 Episode 121 - Aired 8/3/2014
The mole clan is very rough and violent. They plan to shoot down the sun. A young hunter saves a fox from being eaten by a snake. An old man known for his wit wins a game against the local lord, who challenges him to bring 10 barrels of tea seeds in an attempt to get revenge. Source: crunchyroll
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Dragon God Granny / You Can`t Shake Sleeves You Don`t Have / The Raccoon Wood Of Shoujou Temple
Season 1 Episode 122 - Aired 8/10/2014
An old woman who is an excellent midwife hears a woman in pain with a difficult birth. A man saves a snake and is rewarded with a strange sleeve that creates money when shaken. A ghost in an old temple turns out to be a raccoon. Source: crunchyroll
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The Buddha That Keeps Away Fire / The Curse of the Willow / The House That Would Not Eat Salmon
Season 1 Episode 123 - Aired 8/17/2014
There is a kid who works hard but the priest has never seen him work hard. Yahei's friends cut down a willow tree, and their tongues were ripped out of their throats and they died horrible deaths. Okoma is kidnapped by an eagle and saved by a salmon. Source: crunchyroll
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The Soul That Was Hunted by the Dead / Octopus Bhaisajyaguru / The Nursing Willow
Season 1 Episode 124 - Aired 8/24/2014
A wife weaves her loom to raise money for the family, but the spirits of the dead hear the sound and come to claim her soul. A monk buys some octopus for his ailing mother, but an irritating local man calls him out. A man raises his daughter alone, and one day a woman under a willow tree gives her milk. Source: crunchyroll
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The Bean and the Priest Statue / The Reed Spring / Swan Pass
Season 1 Episode 125 - Aired 8/31/2014
An honest old man's bean is eaten by a priest statue, and in exchange he gets a demon's treasure. A man saves a snake from a volcano and is given a reed full of water that will make a spring. A farmer saves a wounded swan, and marries a beautiful woman. Source: crunchyroll
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The Priest Statue Falls in Love / The Flat Nose of the Trickster Fox / A Room with an Owl
Season 1 Episode 127 - Aired 9/14/2014
A statue falls in love and goes to visit its lover every night. A trickster fox loves to tease an old man, but one night it goes a little too far. An owl dies a crow different colors, but the crow doesn't like them. Source: crunchyroll
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The Cat`s Teacup / Monogusatarou / The Monkey and the Toad
Season 1 Episode 128 - Aired 9/21/2014
A man finds an expensive bowl being used as a cat dish and schemes to get it. A lazy man is sent to the capital to work. A monkey and a toad go to Ise, but the monkey does all the work. Source: crunchyroll
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The Kannon Statue of Love / The Box That Doesn`t Open / Candle Confusion
Season 1 Episode 129 - Aired 9/28/2014
A fisherman meets a girl with the help of a goddess, but her parents are opposed to their marriage. He tries to send her home, but... To build a shrine in their town, the villagers hire a man named Takumi. At night Takumi's dolls do the work for him. A priest brings back candles as a gift, but the villagers don't know what they are. One pretends that they're a kind of food... Source: crunchyroll
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The Old Man Who Made Flowers Bloom / The Thousand Coin Orange / Paradise Thief
Season 1 Episode 130 - Aired 10/5/2014
A kind old man raises a dog named Shiro, but his greedy neighbor kills it. When he spreads the ashes in the garden... A rich young man is ill and wants an orange, but it's the middle of summer. The head clerk runs all over town and finally finds one. A thief tries to break into a brewery but is knocked out by the owner. The owner thinks the thief is dead and abandons him next to a river. Source: crunchyroll
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The Crane Repays a Debt / Tower of Boars / Lightning and the Stone Urn
Season 1 Episode 131 - Aired 10/12/2014
A poor man saves a wounded bird, and a beautiful woman comes to be his bride. The beautiful cloths she weaves sell for a high price, but... A young man loves to play the flute, but is forced to prove his bravery by slaying 100 boars. A man makes a stupid wish accidentally, and now a god will kill his son on his seventh birthday. Source: crunchyroll
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The Extending Head / Strong Tarou / Kijimuna and the Sea God
Season 1 Episode 132 - Aired 10/19/2014
A man marries a beautiful, rich wife, but is warned never to wake up in the middle of the night. One night he wakes up. An old couple build a child out of the dirt from their bodies. It comes alive and becomes their son. The Kijimuna fairies that were saved by an old couple fill a beach with flowers but the sea god gets angry. Source: crunchyroll
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Nopperabou / Princess Kaguya / Sutokuin
Season 1 Episode 133 - Aired 10/26/2014
A man meets a woman with no face outside of town. He runs to tell someone, but everyone he sees is a faceless monster. An old man finds a beautiful young girl inside a bamboo tree. A servant works hard to find the woman his master is in love with. Source: crunchyroll
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Kintarou / The Cat of Nekodake / A Bull Running on a Moonlit Night
Season 1 Episode 135 - Aired 11/9/2014
Kintarou is a very strong boy who wants to find his father. A man stays at a mansion filled with monster cats. A rampaging bull destroys fields on moonlit nights. Source: crunchyroll
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The Straw Rich Man / The Bow and Arrow Brothers / The Shrine Priestess` Dance
Season 1 Episode 136 - Aired 11/16/2014
A man who is all alone in the world takes the advice of a goddess and trades a single piece of straw into a fortune. Two brothers who are masters of the bow stop at a village haunted by a monster. They decide to get rid of it. A brave young boy goes to a forbidden shrine, and doesn't come back. Source: crunchyroll
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The Woodcutter and the Monster Crab / The Monster Tamer / Rolling Rice Balls
Season 1 Episode 137 - Aired 11/23/2014
A talented woodcutter enters a forbidden forest and is assaulted by a monster crab. An old man is famous for being rough on his servants. Since nobody wants to work for him, he hires monsters. An old man gives a rat a rice ball, and as thanks is taken to a magical world. Source: crunchyroll
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The Raccoon`s Spinning Wheel / The Two Moons / Ubasute Mountain
Season 1 Episode 138 - Aired 11/30/2014
A raccoon comes to a woodcutter's house and learns to work a spinning wheel. On a moonlit night, a giant snake appears with two moons in tow and swallows a hunter. His daughters find out and swear revenge. A lord issues an order that anybody who turns 60 must be left in the mountains to die. A son tearfully takes his mom up to the mountains but can't bear to it. He hides her beneath the floor. Source: crunchyroll
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The Blessing the Rat Brought / Urashima Tarou / The Kajika Folding Screen
Season 1 Episode 139 - Aired 12/7/2014
A man saves a rat who is being bullied, and is granted great fortune. A man saves a turtle who is being bullied, and is taken to an undersea palace. A man saves the frogs in a swamp, and is given a magic folding screen. Source: crunchyroll
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Little One Inch / The Wolf Rock / The Meguro Pike
Season 1 Episode 140 - Aired 12/14/2014
A boy the size of a thumb defeats a demon. A girl seeks shelter on a snowy night, but is forced to sleep under the porch. A pack of hungry wolves approach her. The lord of a local province learns to love pike. Source: crunchyroll
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Zenroku the Sawyer / The Feather Robe of Heaven / The Hermit Orange
Season 1 Episode 141 - Aired 12/21/2014
A lazy man named Zenroku learns to become a great sawyer. A man finds a celestial maiden's cloth and steals it, and forces her to become his wife. Two ancient sages play a game of go inside an orange. Source: crunchyroll
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The Gods of Poverty Play Sumo / Trip, Trip / The Hat Jizou Statue
Season 1 Episode 142 - Aired 12/28/2014
A hard working family refuses to give in to poverty so the God of Poverty haunting them is to be fired. But they want him to stay. A strange child shouts, "Poor! Trip!" at a poor elderly couple on new years. A poor man gives a priest statue a straw hat, and is given blessings in return. Source: crunchyroll
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The Teapot Raccoon Dog / The Anbarayami Horse / The Stone Door of Heaven
Season 1 Episode 143 - Aired 1/4/2015
A hard working family refuses to give in to poverty so the God of Poverty haunting them is to be fired. But they want him to stay. A strange child shouts, "Poor! Trip!" at a poor elderly couple on new years. A poor man gives a priest statue a straw hat, and is given blessings in return. Source: crunchyroll
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Wakahime of Ryuuguu / The Salt Millstone / The Escaped Sparrow
Season 1 Episode 144 - Aired 1/11/2015
A young man throws all his firewood into a whirlpool, and the next day he's visited by a woman from the undersea palace of Ryuuguu. A millet makes salt, and never stops. Magical birds escape from a painting drawn by a master. Source: crunchyroll
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Momotarou / The Mountain Bird`s Arrow / The Thunder God That Married the Soba Stand Owner
Season 1 Episode 146 - Aired 1/25/2015
A boy is born from a peach and beats a demon. A fierce hawk kills animals on a winter mountain, and only a hunter can stop it. A thunder god falls in love with the owner of a soba stand and marries her. Source: crunchyroll
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Ofuku and the Oni / The Oni`s Toshitori / The Priest and the Raccoon
Season 1 Episode 147 - Aired 2/1/2015
A girl named Ofuku is kidnapped by a terrible demon, but she has a plan. A couple invites a demon into their homes on the way when demons are normally driven out. A priest becomes friends with a raccoon couple who want to hear the sutras he recites. Source: crunchyroll
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The Golden Egg / The Man Who Became a Turtle / Sannennetarou
Season 1 Episode 148 - Aired 2/8/2015
A man finds a golden egg and takes it home, and a baby hatches from it. A man is cruel to his hard-working wife, who leaves him. Then he turns into a turtle. A lazy man sleeps all day, when a drought comes its time for him to work. Source: crunchyroll
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The Horsefly Repays a Debt / The Thunder God and the Doctor / The Painted Wife
Season 1 Episode 149 - Aired 2/15/2015
A man saves a horsefly, who repays him by helping him marry the headman's daughter. A doctor of moxibustion heals a thunder god who has a bad hip. A man loves to look at his wife so much that he can't work, so she gives him a picture of himself. Source: crunchyroll
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The Water Seed / The Blessing Rat / The Hermit Who Did Nothing
Season 1 Episode 150 - Aired 2/22/2015
A man helps a snake and is taken to the dragon god's palace, and the dragon god offers him anything he wants. He asks for water for his village. A white rat brings blessings to a man but his greedy neighbor steels it. A lazy man finds a tiny hermit in a pot. The lazier he is the more the hermit grows, until at last it fills the whole house. Source: crunchyroll
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The Weight Fox / The Most Important Man in the World / The Hina`s Yobayashi
Season 1 Episode 151 - Aired 3/1/2015
A god gives a man a fox who helps him in business, but the fox demands an exponential price in return. A stonecutter learns who the most important man in the world is. Dolls come out to play at night on Doll's Day. Source: crunchyroll
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The Mountain Grannie & the Traveling Performer. / Sentoku`s Money / The Stonefish`s Love
Season 1 Episode 152 - Aired 3/8/2015
A traveling performer gets lost on a mountain at night, and encounters a mountain grannie. The grannie asks him to perform. A monk finds an envelope of money for a boy named "Sentoku." An ugly stonefish tries to confess its love to a beautiful girl fish. Source: crunchyroll
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The Thief`s Loss / The Horse, Dog, Cat, and Chicken Go on a Journey / Stories for Ten Coins
Season 1 Episode 153 - Aired 3/15/2015
A thief helps a sick boy instead of stealing. A horse, a cat, a dog, and a chicken go on a journey. Stories are sold for ten gold coins. Source: crunchyroll
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The Horse and the Kaaranbe / The White Fox Repays a Debt / Sarasarayasara
Season 1 Episode 154 - Aired 3/22/2015
A man washes his horse in the river, and the horse is attacked by evil imps. A white fox repays a debt. A lord and a peasant woman exchange beautiful poems. Source: crunchyroll
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Scary Buns / The Raindrop Monster / The Carpenter and Oniroku
Season 1 Episode 157 - Aired 4/12/2015
Crab children seek vengeance on a monkey who hurt their mother. A greedy man finds a shrine that doubles his money. A man saves a spider and marries a beautiful woman, who makes him rich with her splendid weaving. Source: crunchyroll
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Kachikachi Mountain / Long Arms and Long Legs / Mountain Monk Rock
Season 1 Episode 158 - Aired 4/19/2015
A rabbit seeks revenge when a raccoon's pranks go too far. Two monsters are defeated by a Buddhist monk. A wandering monk battles a horrifying monster who turns her victims to stone. Source: crunchyroll
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Ash-Covered Haitarou / The Tengu`s Sake / Kanekichi the Flute Player
Season 1 Episode 159 - Aired 4/26/2015
A noble boy is covered in ashes to hide his true identity. A Tengu turns a lake into sake, and threatens a boy if he reveals the secret. A man named Kanekichi plays a flute so beautifully it entrances even the animals. Source: crunchyroll
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The Fox of Battari Stream / Celebratory Sumo / Quiet Contest
Season 1 Episode 160 - Aired 5/3/2015
A fox impersonates a man's wife. Gods play a game of sumo to celebrate a change of fortune in a household. An old couple has a quiet contest that's interrupted by a thief. Source: crunchyroll
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The Cowherding Priest Statue / Tanokyuu / Whale Bridge
Season 1 Episode 161 - Aired 5/10/2015
A priest statue helps an old man. A traveling performer meets a giant snake that devours travelers. A fishing village angers the whales and pays a terrible price. Source: crunchyroll
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Tenshiki / The Snot-Nosed Kid / Mayoiga
Season 1 Episode 162 - Aired 5/17/2015
A priest sends a boy into town to learn about the mysterious "tenshiki". A snot-nosed boy can grant any wish, but he drools all the time. A lost house gives wonderful presents. Source: crunchyroll
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The Listening Hood / You There, Grandpa? / The Carrot, the Burdock, and the Radish
Season 1 Episode 164 - Aired 5/31/2015
A man gets a hood which helps him listen to animals. An old man's wife beloved makes him promise to put her dead body in the closet. Vegetables take a bath to get ready to go to heaven. Source: crunchyroll
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The Hornless Sazae / The Willowleaf Fish / The High Priest Who Came to the Village
Season 1 Episode 165 - Aired 6/7/2015
A village helps a monk escape the wrath of a fuedal lord. A goddess turns leaves into fish to help her people. A high priest comes to the village. Source: crunchyroll
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Eat Miso Beans Even If You Have to Go Back Three Leagues / Netarou of Asa / Tarou of the Broken Bowl
Season 1 Episode 166 - Aired 6/14/2015
A traveling pair of samurai eat delicious miso beans, which are so good that they travel back three leagues to get more. A boy sleeps for three years and begins to make strange requests. A lazy boy is forced to work in the mountains for three years, and given a broken bowl in exchange. Source: crunchyroll
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The Man Who Was Faster Than a Horse / The Incredibly Strong Oni Tayuu / The Kappa and the Gourd
Season 1 Episode 167 - Aired 6/21/2015
A man becomes faster than a horse after his mother dies. A sumo wrestler uses divine help to defeat an opponent. A kappa wants to marry a girl in exchange for his help. Source: crunchyroll
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Two Young Boys with a Destiny / Osan the Fox and Yosaburou the Raccoon / The Underground Country
Season 1 Episode 168 - Aired 6/28/2015
Two boys have a great destiny to fulfill. A fox and a raccoon get in a competition to see who can trick the other. A boy goes deep underground and finds a terrible country of demons. Source: crunchyroll
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The Story of the Man Who Was Always in a Hurry / The Cat of Unpenji Temple / The Yama-Ori Rich Man
Season 1 Episode 169 - Aired 7/5/2015
A man is always in a big hurry. A terrible monster is defeated by a cat. A rich man devises a cunning plan to marry off his daughter. Source: crunchyroll
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The Beanstalk and the Heavenly Mansion / Otei`s Story / Moyabune
Season 1 Episode 173 - Aired 8/2/2015
A boy climbs a beanstalk to heaven. A man promises to marry his dying wife when she is reborn. The sorrowful souls of dead mothers haunt a mountain for all eternity. Source: crunchyroll
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The Cursed Blade That Sank into the Swamp / The Plate Mansion of Banchou / Zensuke, the Badger, and the Kappa
Season 1 Episode 175 - Aired 8/16/2015
Every night a cursed katana flies out of its scabbard and kills people. The ghost of a murdered woman counts plates every night. A couple moves next to a lake where animals and monsters live. Source: crunchyroll
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Hakke Hachitarou / Ohatsu Kannon / The Monster of Red Lake
Season 1 Episode 178 - Aired 9/6/2015
A man uses his fortune-telling skills to win a reward. A suspicious man believes rumors that lead to his fiancee's death. An old priest tricks a monster. Source: crunchyroll
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Monster Temple / Eggplant Grannie / The Tengu`s Invisibility Cape
Season 1 Episode 180 - Aired 9/20/2015
A monk goes to a temple for spiritual training. An Eggplant Grannie reportedly shows up at a secluded mountain temple. There was a tengu who used an Invisibility Cape to pull pranks on people. Source: crunchyroll
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The Umbrella Priest Statues / The Great Year`s Fire / The Snow Woman
Season 1 Episode 194 - Aired 12/27/2015
On New Year's Eve, a poor couple struggles to bring in the new year. A woman is told not to let the fire go out on New Year's Eve, but... Minokichi and Mokichi take shelter from the blizzard, when a mysterious woman appears before them. Source: crunchyroll
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The Man Who Bought Dreams / The Badger of Eagle Mountain / Ishibumi-sama Heals Illness
Season 1 Episode 195 - Aired 1/3/2016
A man buys dreams that lead to wealth. A badger longs for a mother's warmth. A god promises health if people will stop tripping over his head. Source: crunchyroll
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The Forest of Furuya / The Tengu and the Potato / The Kakegoro of Kanne and the Princess
Season 1 Episode 203 - Aired 2/28/2016
A wolf encounters the most terrifying thing in the world. A tengu plays tricks with potatoes. Kanne and his merry band race a princess. Source: crunchyroll
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The Village of Nightingales / The Rich Man and Gatarou / The Soul That Went into a Different Girl
Season 1 Episode 204 - Aired 3/6/2016
A woman entrusts a man with a mysterious mansion. A rich man makes a deal with a kappa to make a bridge. A girl's soul enters another's body. Source: crunchyroll
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The White Rabbit of Inaba / The Giant, Strange-Colored Deer / The Jewel of Sangosu
Season 1 Episode 214 - Aired 5/15/2016
A god's love of his fellow creatures is tested. A strange-colored deer holds the key to a cure. A priest demands the return of a jewel. Source: crunchyroll
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The Cat from the Dragon Palace / Sashisaba and Tsurushigaki / The Fart-Seller
Season 1 Episode 216 - Aired 5/29/2016
A cat from Ryuuguu Palace brings wealth. A greedy man freezes as he eats all the persimmons. A man sells farts that are sacred to the Buddha. Source: crunchyroll
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Umisachihiko and Yamasachihiko / The Stupid Groom and the Crab Loincloth / The Demons Who Passed Through Demon Pass
Season 1 Episode 219 - Aired 6/19/2016
A fishing hook is lost, then found. A man does not understand the proper etiquette for eating crab. A blue oni and a red oni fight for the love of a goddess. Source: crunchyroll
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Orihime and Hikoboshi / The Mercy of the Priest Statue / Yatsuhashi
Season 1 Episode 221 - Aired 7/3/2016
Orihime and Hikoboshi fall in love, but neglect their duties. They are separated eternally by the milky way. A woman is tricked by an evil mother and dies in a swamp, but she wasn't what she appeared to be. A woman's sons drown in a river, and she builds eight bridges to commemorate their deaths. Source: crunchyroll
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The Oyster Mushroom at the Bottom of the Valley / The Bride`s Present / The Tree Peony and the Rat
Season 1 Episode 222 - Aired 7/10/2016
A lord picks mushrooms. A wife is embarrassed at her family's meager presents. Two sculptors compete to see who is the best, but one cheats. Source: crunchyroll
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The Story of the Tengu on Dainichiyama / The Fox`s Gift / The Child That Was Kidnapped by an Eagle
Season 1 Episode 223 - Aired 7/17/2016
A tengu from Dainichiyama finds a human mother. A fox gives a man a gift in exchange for not being shot. A mother is reunited with a lost child which was kidnapped by an eagle. Source: crunchyroll
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Oitekebori / The Flying Man and His Flying Journey / Otogirisou
Season 1 Episode 225 - Aired 7/31/2016
A man is haunted by a ghost who wants him to leave his fish. A flying man goes on a flying journey. A greedy man repents of his attack on his brother. Source: crunchyroll
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Yotsuya Ghost Story / The Inn in the Grave / The Thief of Paradise
Season 1 Episode 226 - Aired 8/7/2016
A deceitful and murderous husband meets a terrifying end. A man seeks refuge in a grave and fools a robber. A thief thinks he's been killed and sent to paradise. Source: crunchyroll
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The Box of Jealousy / The Mirror and the Bell / The Cat`s Teacup
Season 1 Episode 228 - Aired 8/21/2016
A woman opens a box and meets a terrible fate. A wife seeks revenge for her lost mirror. A merchant tries to con a man out of a rare dish, but is conned instead. Source: crunchyroll
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The Broken Promise / The Story of the Green Willow / Enma-sama Is Hachigoro-don
Season 1 Episode 229 - Aired 8/28/2016
A promise is broken and a life is taken. A man marries a green willow. The lord of hell is tricked out of his job by a sneaky thief. Source: crunchyroll
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The Fishwife / Obusaritee / The Fox Kid of Ankokuji
Season 1 Episode 234 - Aired 10/2/2016
A man abuses his wife, who is a fish, and lives to regret it. A monster wants to be carried on someone's back. A fox at Ankokuji wants to learn the ways of the buddha. Source: crunchyroll
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Karoku and the Crane / The Shiranui Pine / Gohachi Is Kidnapped by a Tengu
Season 1 Episode 243 - Aired 12/4/2016
A kind man marries a crane who weaves on his loom. A man goes out to fish on a stormy day and doesn't come back. Gohachi sumo wrestles a tengu. Source: crunchyroll
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The Taishiko Dumpling / Dancing Yohei and the Brideless Fox / The Kanekkoori Wife
Season 1 Episode 246 - Aired 12/25/2016
A poor woman steals rice to help a priest in need. A dancing man faces a trickster fox. A lonely man marries a woman who is actually an icicle. Source: crunchyroll
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The Priest`s Hand Towel / A Story of Fuki / A Thousand Ships of White Sesame Seeds and a Thousand Ships of Black Sesame Seeds
Season 1 Episode 249 - Aired 1/22/2017
A monk's hand towel is a gift to a hard-working girl. Fuki learns of a spring that will heal her father's illness. A girl from Ryuuguu Palace must produce a miracle for an evil lord. Source: crunchyroll
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Sadaroku and Shiro / The Man Who Healed the Dragon`s Eye / The Talisman Bead of the Oni
Season 1 Episode 250 - Aired 1/29/2017
A faithful dog tries to save his master and fails. A good doctor spreads medicine even after being betrayed. A boy challenges demons to win back the medicine he needs for his sick mom. Source: crunchyroll
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The Medicine That Works Here and There / The Monster Master / The Frog of Kyoto, the Frog of Osaka
Season 1 Episode 253 - Aired 2/19/2017
A woman wants a drug to slowly kill her mother-in-law. An old man is terrible to his servants, even when those servants are monsters. A frog from Kyoto and a frog from Osaka visit each other's cities. Source: crunchyroll
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The Tanuki Forest of Shoujou Temple / The Night Forest of the Hina Dolls / The Man Who Almost Became a Cat
Season 1 Episode 254 - Aired 2/26/2017
Raccoons play the drums at Shoujouji temple. Hina dolls play drums throughout the night. A man almost become a cat. Source: crunchyroll
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