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| Woodblock print Posted by Amcaja Source: Wikimedia |
- father is disgraced and woman must run away to escape his adversaries at court
- lives in woods. gives birth to son there
- Son has crazy super-human life strength.
- Kintaro= golden boy
- What made him so strong?
- From living in the woods?
- His father?
- his mother?
- Why is he a golden boy?
- What could his mother of done to make this "golden boy" truly special and different?
- dipped him in a mystical river?
- prayed to the gods?
- maybe his father was like that?
Kintaro: Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908).
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