Folktales from Japan

The Joroku Statue; The God of Poverty; The Carp in the Basin (2x38)

: 21, 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... (repeat from episode 37). 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.