The Crane Wife — East Asia (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to a snowy mountain village in Japan, where a young man frees a white crane from a hunter's cord and asks for nothing in return. That night a woman named Tsuu appears at his door, and before winter is over she offers to weave a cloth unlike anything in the world — if he promises never to watch her work.
A world folktale every night, told to help you fall asleep. Follow the show so tomorrow night's story finds you too.
Source & tradition: Japanese *mukashibanashi*, known as *Tsuru Nyobo* ("Crane Wife") and related to *Tsuru no Ongaeshi* ("The Crane's Return of a Favor")…
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