Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . g some eightybrothers. In brothers, two are company, three are acrowd. That is, the youngest is pretty sure to play fag tohis elders. If there are several younger brothers, these canand will combine to resist any imposition practised by theelder. Bat the more there are, the more it is certain thatthe last in line will be like the youngster at the tail of along snap the whip. He is in for something more orle
Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . g some eightybrothers. In brothers, two are company, three are acrowd. That is, the youngest is pretty sure to play fag tohis elders. If there are several younger brothers, these canand will combine to resist any imposition practised by theelder. Bat the more there are, the more it is certain thatthe last in line will be like the youngster at the tail of along snap the whip. He is in for something more orless unpleasant. Oho-kuni-nushi was no exception to this,on the whole, healthy principle. He set out with the * As to the sword mentioned, Ama-terasu has it yet; or rather turnedit over to her grandson Ninigi-no-mikoto as one of the sacred was deposited at Ise, where Yamato-take received it from his left it with Princess Miyazu. The lack of it made him sick, and itspresence made Tenchi-Tenno sick. This Kusa-nagi-Tsurugi (the sword)was then placed in the Atsuta Daijingfi (about three miles from Nagoya)where the Japanese to-day worship it. t Chuai, son of INABA-NO-USAGI and OHO-KUNI-NUSHI-NO-MIKOTO. INTRODUCTION. 1 1 eighty, who would awooing go ; and who took Oho-nushialong to carry their luggage (in true elder brother style).Now on the way to Inaba, where dwelt their charmer(she had both beauty and ducats), the Princess Yakami,they reached the headland of Keta ; on which they found,lying prone, a hare stripped of his pelt, and naturally in anadvanced stage of discomfort. One hare among eightyhungry men will not go far. There was far more fun(they thought) to be had with the hare then and there thanby spitting him. On questioning him they learned that hehad just come from the island of Oki, and was no meanliar himself. For lacking transport, and with due regard tokeeping his fur dry, he inveigled the crocodiles* into a betas to the number of their
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