The next Scary Japanese Story (日本のこわい話, nihon no kowai hanashi) is called めし食わぬにょうぼう (meshi kuwanu n
The next Scary Japanese Story (日本のこわい話, nihon no kowai hanashi) is called めし食わぬにょうぼう (meshi kuwanu nyoubou) - or, the Wife Who Didn’t Eat Food.A bucket maker (おけや, okeya) named Gosaku (ごさく), who was young, but was terribly stingy (たいへん けちんぼう, taihen kechinbou), such that he still didn’t have a wife (here, wife is おかみさま, okamisama, which does NOT mean a god/goddess). He muses that if he had a wife, he’d need another portion of food for her, and that would be quite wasteful (もったいない, mottainai). He says he wants to have a wife that works hard and doesn’t eat…… -- source link
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