bold = Main text
   Chapter                               grey = Comment text

 1 X   |                X~THE REBIRTH OF KATSUGORÔ~I~   THE following is not
 2 X   |      DEMPACHIRÔ.~   The case of Katsugorô, nine years old, second
 3 X   |       year, the above-mentioned Katsugorô, the son of Genzô, told
 4 X   |       Afterwards, however, when Katsugorô had told her the same story
 5 X   |        Genzô himself questioned Katsugorô about the matter, whereupon
 6 X   |     about the matter, whereupon Katsugorô declared, - -~   That he
 7 X   |         Musashi; - ~   That he, Katsugorô, the son of Kyûbei, had
 8 X   |     home in his previous birth. Katsugorô was then taken to the house
 9 X   |      from various places to see Katsugorô.~   A deposition regarding
10 X   |       account of the rebirth of Katsugorô. I have written it in the
11 X   |         from the grandmother of Katsugorô. When you have read it,
12 X   |      RELATION OF THE REBIRTH OF KATSUGORÔ~4. - (Introductory Note
13 X   |    having obtained a glimpse of Katsugorô, he questioned the boy's
14 X   |         family of the aforesaid Katsugorô. Furthermore, he vouchsafed
15 X   |            Family of Genzô.]~   KATSUGORÔ. - Born the 10th day of
16 X   |   Yusuki.~   GENZÔ. - Father of Katsugorô. Family name, Koyada. Forty-nine
17 X   |     Wife of Genzô and mother of Katsugorô. Thirty-nine years old this
18 X   |         TSUYA. - Grandmother of Katsugorô. Seventy-two years old this
19 X   |         FUSA. - Elder sister of Katsugorô. Fifteen years old this
20 X   |     OTOJIRÔ. - Elder brother of Katsugorô. Fourteen years old this
21 X   |       TSUMÉ - Younger sister of Katsugorô. Four years old this year.~
22 X   |    month of the past year, when Katsugorô was playing in the rice-field
23 X   |       me before I was born?"~   Katsugorô looked surprised and exclaimed:~   "
24 X   |           Indeed I do," replied Katsugorô. "I used to be the son of
25 X   |        mother about it."~   But Katsugorô at once began to cry, and
26 X   |     making her threat. Thinking Katsugorô must have been doing something
27 X   |       Tsuya, the grandmother of Katsugorô, thought it a very strange
28 X   |      strange thing. They called Katsugorô, therefore; and tried, first
29 X   |     words.~   After hesitation, Katsugorô said: - "I will tell you
30 X   |          Now Sei, the mother of Katsugorô, had nightly to suckle her
31 X   |      was four years old;1 - and Katsugorô therefore slept with his
32 X   |         Genzô and his wife what Katsugorô had related to her; and
33 X   |        San." Genzô thought that Katsugorô, being a strange child,
34 X   |       there.~   Tsuya went with Katsugorô to Hodokubo; and when they
35 X   |       that one?" "No," answered Katsugorô, - "it is further on - much
36 X   |        Tsuya was convinced that Katsugorô had spoken the truth; and
37 X   |    people of the house all that Katsugorô had told her about his remembrance
38 X   | wondered greatly. They caressed Katsugorô and wept; and they remarked
39 X   |       of six. In the mean time, Katsugorô was looking all about; and
40 X   |       On the same day Tsuya and Katsugorô returned to Tanitsuiri,
41 X   |         existence.~   Sometimes Katsugorô says: - "I am a Nono-Sama:1
42 X(2)|         In the mouth of the boy Katsugorô "Ontaké Sama" means the
43 X   |  village people do not call him Katsugorô any more; they have nicknamed
44 X   |      Relation of the Rebirth of Katsugorô.)~7. - (NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR.)~