Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220521 
Tanuki Scroll LI: 大力権兵衛 
Read today’s folktale, from Nagano prefecture!
The secret to becoming VERY STRONG MAN:
- Eat soba noodle.
- Become strong.
but don’t go challenging people to a all-you-can-eat soba competition because one of you will die from eating too much soba and then you’ll feel bad and feel obliged to help the village and you will toil in the mountains all day every day to build a road that spans a large distance between two towns and you’ll be remembered for building that road for time immemorial
Japanese found in the tall grass
New Things
だけでなく ー Not only/just (this thing that precedes this) but also (this thing that follows); as well as