Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220409 
Tanuki Scroll IX: 人を食わなくなったオニ 
& 水の枯れた沼のカエル 
Read today’s folktale, from Okayama prefecture!
About an ogre who eats people. One day he swallows VERY STRONG MAN who fears no stinking oni, and finds being inside the oni peaceful. Conveniently, inside the oni stomach there are three strings hanging from the… “ceiling”: one to make him sneeze, one to make him laugh and one to make him cry. The three important emotions of a well-rounded oni.
So naturally he pulls all three at once to see what happens. The oni is in so much pain he spits the man out and says he’ll never eat another human again.
The other story is an Aesop fable, it’s only a few sentences but I had to click it because of the cute frogges:
Japanese found in the tall grass
New Things
長閑「のどか」ー Tranquil; peaceful
クシャミ / くしゃみ「嚏」ー A sneeze, the kanji isn’t seen very often. Also, you say “くさめ” twice after someone sneezes to protect them from dying early.
日照り「ひでり」ー Drought; dry weather
Step by step of how to sneeze in Japanese
Step 1: は、
Step 2: は、
Step 3: はっ、
Step 4: はくしょん！