The fifth story is called Diplomacy and it is about a samurai outsmarting a man he will kill so he wouldn't take revenge on the village in his death. A milk nurse sacrifices herself for a girl she nursed and loved as her own and a cherry tree gets planted for her sake called Ubazakura. The fourth story is about a motherly sacrifice. After many years and having suffered a loss of parents and wife Nagao reunites with the resurrected O-Tei. A girl O-Tei dies and promises her lover Nagao that she will come back to him in this life. The third story is about a reunion of a love couple in the form of resurrection. The second is about a hunter turning priest because he killed a male duck and the female duck came to his dream in a form of a woman and told him that she will kill herself because he killed her husband, and she did. The first story is about a man called Hoichi the earless because he got involved into a spirit trap he touched where he wasn't supposed to and the only way for his survival was to turn to a priest. The stories are fairly simple upon reading but evoke more considerable messages and views. Kwaidan is a collection of Japanese strange stories mostly based on supernatural superstition and Buddhist religious beliefs with a hint of history involved. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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