Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220402 
Tanuki Scroll II: 恩知らず 
Read today’s folktale, from Kyoto prefecture!
About a man who gets lost in the snow and is surely to freeze to death, a bear comes along and he prepares for a higher degree of certain death, but to his surprise the bear leads him back to its burrow where it’s super cosy and warm. He goes to sleep on the bear for four days. 
Then when he gets back to the village, because he is an ungrateful sod, he takes a hunter to where the bear is… how could you?? 
But it’s okay because くまくん catches on and rips the ungrateful man in half and all is well again.
Moral: “たとえ相手が動物でも恩知らずな事をすれば、あの男の様になる”
Japanese found in the tall grass
New Things
恩知らず「おんしらず」ー Ungrateful
凍える「こごえる」ー To freeze (your body); to become numb. Similar to 凍る 「こおる」, but こごえる has the nuance of it being you (or someone’s body) that is the thing being frozen. Here in the story it was part of: 凍え死に 「こごえじに」ー which means to freeze to death.
Word that is there to be confusing
止まる …easy enough, means to stop moving, or to come to a stop. と-ま-る.
But it can also be 止まる - which means to remain (somewhere), to stay, but this is read とどまる. And it can also be written like: 留まる (which is the first kanji suggestion to pop up when you write とどまる, well at least on mine it is.), 停まる or 駐まる… but then, plain old とまる can also be written like these. Best to just write it in kana, like it is here in the story.