Motif
impossible suitor tasks answered by counterfeit gifts
impossible_suitor_tasks_answered_by_counterfeit_gifts
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 2742-2841 confidence: high
The First Knight announces a quest for Buddha’s bowl, avoids traveling to India, takes a stone bowl from a Kyoto temple altar after paying a priest, wraps it in gold cloth, waits three years, and carries it to the old man.
The suitors attempt to satisfy Princess Moonlight’s demands for rare sacred or fabled objects by substituting a temple bowl and a manufactured branch.
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