Folktales from Japan

The Herrings and the Old Woman; The God of Wind and the Children; The Spider's Determination (2x42)

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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.