A father journeys up to the capital and brings his wife a treasure she has never seen in all her life in the snow country of Echigo — a mirror, in whose bright surface she beholds her own face for the first time. Years later, dying, she gives the mirror to her young daughter with a promise: whenever you are lonely and long to see me, look into its clear and shining surface, and there you will meet me. The girl, who has never learned what a mirror truly shows, keeps that promise morning and evening — until a stepmother's jealous suspicion turns the keepsake into an accusation of secret sorcery, and the simple truth must come to light. A mother's love that outlasts death, and the innocent heart that goes on seeing it.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908), public domain; told in a fresh in-house rendering.
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