Thursday, April 11, 2024

J is for Japan


The Mirror of Matsuyama

A girl's mother left her a hand mirror as a gift before dying. Not understanding its function, the girl thought her reflection was her mother's soul. Her father remarried and her stepmother believed the girl was trying to curse her. She demanded her husband confront his daughter and the girl explained her relationship to the mirror and her departed mother. The stepmother apologized to her stepdaughter and the family lived happily ever after.

Source: The Japanese Fairy Book by Yei Theodora Ozaki.

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