Chapter

 1 I   |        Tsukamoto Motokichi our son, a soldier of twenty-nine:
 2 III |       of the merchant's eldest son. That the proverb about
 3 VII |       a curious case. The only son of a merchant - a lad of
 4 VII |     now called Shôtoku Taishi, son of the Emperor Yômei, and
 5 VII |        back when the Emperor's son - then only sixteen years
 6 VIII|         teaching!~And Ragora,1 son of his loins? - was he forgotten
 7 X   |         nine years old, second son of Genzô, a farmer on my
 8 X   | above-mentioned Katsugorô, the son of Genzô, told to his elder
 9 X   |       his former existence the son of a certain Kyûbei, a farmer
10 X   |        That he, Katsugorô, the son of Kyûbei, had died of smallpox
11 X   |         Bunsei [1823].1 Second son of Genzô, a farmer living
12 X   |   Katsugorô. "I used to be the son of Kyûbei San of Hodokubo,
13 X   |   everything. I used to be the son of Kyûbei San of Hodokubo,
14 X   |  whether there had ever been a son called Tôzô born in that
15 X   |      Afterwards Genzô sent his son several times to Hanshirô'