Kwaidan Page #3

Most peasant women age early

after having three children.

She still looks like a girl.

She's a wonder.

Put them on.

Is it too small?

And the children's?

I made them.

How nice! All ready... the sandals

for the holiday season!

If the thongs are too tight,

I'll fix them.

Now try them on.

Yes.

How beautiful!

Why the red thongs?

You're still young.

I'm a mother of three children.

Red is still your colour.

Your feet look beautiful.

It fits well.

Not too tight, not too lose.

It's exactly my size.

Your sandals look beautiful

and sturdy

so people come to you

for special orders.

This pair is exceedingly good.

I made them so that

they'll match your kimono.

As if I were going away

on a journey!

I can't buy you a new kimono,

so at least you have sandals.

With your sandals and my kimono

our children will have

a wonderful holiday.

How is it going?

A few more stitches.

Why are you watching me

so intently?

I just remembered

that night ten years ago.

It's strange to recall it now

after so many years.

You're sewing with the light

on your face

and I'm looking up at you

like this.

That's why I remembered

that night...

What night?

A strange thing happened

that night.

I can remember it well as if it

happened yesterday.

I was eighteen then. I never

told anybody about that night.

I'm not sure it was real

or a dream.

It was the night that old Mosaku

was frozen dead

as if his blood were all gone.

I saw with my own eyes a woman

who was bending over him.

And she was blowing her breath

like a white smoke upon him.

Then he became stiff and

couldn't move.

That woman stooped over me, too.

And I got almost numb.

Then,

the eyes of the horrible woman

Iooked very, very beautiful.

She was so beautiful

and white like you.

Yes!

You looked exactly like her

just now.

That's why I remembered.

Once the memory haunted me

day and night.

I became sick after that.

I tell you, it was when I spent

the terrible snowstormy night

in the ferryman's hut.

I saw very clearly the weird

woman who killed old Mosaku.

I've never seen in my life

a woman as beautiful and white

as her except you.

Of course, she's not a human

being and I was afraid of her.

She was the Woman of the Snow

who was hungry for warm blood...

...or a dream.

...or a dream.

Not a dream.

I...

It was me.

Me!

Me!

It was Yuki.

You promised that night you'd

never tell anybody.

You finally broke the promise.

It was a pledge for life

for both of us.

I told you if you broke it,

I would kill you.

You betrayed me!

Ah, if it were not for those

children asleep there

I would kill you this moment!

From now on

you'd better take good care

of those children.

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