The Snow Woman Page #3

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Where did you disappear to?

Your face is turning blue!

- I don't feel very well.

- What happened? Is everything okay?

Yes... It is better already.

- Let us return home.

- Yes. Let us return home.

Are you all right?

Let me give you a hand.

Oh, it is the Bailiff!

What an unexpected visit!

What happened?

Some pressing matter?

As you know, I was invited into

the capital by the high court Official.

I have arrived this morning.

Fortunately, I met there

this man.

Who is he?

His name is Gykei, he's a master of

Buddhist statues in the capital.

He belongs to the school of Unkei.

He's a very famous master.

Let me introduce myself, Gykei.

By the way, he was the one

I wish to talk to you about.

I heard your temple needed

the main sacred statue.

Please, entrust its production

to master sculptor Gykei.

I'm very grateful

for your proposal,

but I've already entrusted it

to Yosaku, Shigetomo's apprentice.

I understand! If Shigetomo made

the statue, it would be another story,

but this is too great an honor

for an unknown youth.

Besides that, I've heard that

five years have already passed

since you entrusted him

with this work.

Five years have passed already,

but he has done nothing!

May I speak?

I have heard that it requires 4-5 years

to dry the material for the statue.

Yosaku is probably waiting

until the material is ready.

I understand!

But I say you entrusted

an unknown master

with producing the main sacred

statue for the state temple.

What will you do,

if he does not finish it?

He has not started to work yet,

so let Gykei also do it.

We will look at their works

and select the best.

Do you have any objections?

Well, it sounds very convincing.

I will agree.

I am so happy!

Because I've got a good wife.

I feel the same about you.

Also, you're a marvelous mother.

I hope...

my son also thinks so...

You're a good mother. Moreover, you are

still as beautiful as you were before.

Gykei, he is your competitor.

Yosaku, Gykei is a very famous master.

We've decided just now that he'll also produce

a main sacred statue for the temple.

But this work was entrusted

to you, wasn't it?

Show us what you are

capable of.

- This woman...

- What?

I've hunted for women in the capital

for five years,

but among them, there was none

to compare with her.

She is even more beautiful

than she was before.

The Bailiff supports Gykei.

But I won't lose to him!

I have changed in these five years.

Now, now, near the small

brook behind the house,

A snake lived before,

and a tortoise lives now.

A common tortoise,

but it steals people.

Yesterday it took four people,

and today five more.

A family of nine people in all.

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