The mythological stories recorded on the paper are not lengthy; the style resembles folk tales passed down orally by elders in secluded residential areas.
[It is said that a long, long time ago, there lived a samurai and his wife in a place called Mount Tanigawa. The couple was deeply in love and had four children, all daughters.
The samurai felt that his family business needed an heir, so he and his wife had another child, but it was a leech child (born with missing limbs), and his wife died tragically during childbirth.
Feeling deep sorrow and regret, the samurai lay weeping at the foot of Mount Tanigawa. The mountain deity pitied him and told him that he could seek out the god on Feathers Zhang Mountain, who governs human destinies and might have a solution.
