| First of all, I'll show you a tragic story about
a woman who was loved by two men.
Unai-otome was a good-looking lady living in Ashinoya (near Kobe). Plenty of men attracted by her beauty. Among them, there were two men that strongly wished to marry her. Unai-otoko and Chinu-otoko fought with each other to get her. Unai-otome loved both. She couldn't determine which to be her husband because she didn't want to hurt anyone. Her mother, taking the two men to the Ikura river, requested the two to shoot birds swimming on the river. She proposed that Unai-otome should be better shooter's wife. Both of the men agreed. Both did well. Unai-otome had no more possible way to make decision which to choose. She threw herself into a pond to death. When she dove, the two men followed her: the one held her arm and the other grasped her leg and died together. Unai-Otome's grave is at Higashinada-ku, Kobe, as the Otomezuka Tomb. Graves of Unai-Otoko and Chunu-Otoko are at Nada-ku and Higashinada-ku, Kobe, both as the Motomezuka Tombs. |
