BALAS BUDI BURUNG BANGAU
Dahulu kala di suatu tempat di Jepang, hidup seorang pemuda
bernama Yosaku. Kerjanya mengambil kayu bakar di gunung dan menjualnya ke kota.
Uang hasil penjualan dibelikannya makanan. Terus seperti itu setiap harinya.
Hingga pada suatu hari ketika ia berjalan pulang dari kota ia melihat sesuatu
yang menggelepar di atas salju. Setelah di dekatinya ternyata seekor burung
bangau yang terjerat diperangkap sedang meronta-ronta. Yosaku segera melepaskan
perangkat itu. Bangau itu sangat gembira, ia berputar-putar di atas kepala
Yosaku beberapa kali sebelum terbang ke angkasa. Karena cuaca yang sangat
dingin, sesampainya dirumah, Yosaku segera menyalakan tungku api dan menyiapkan
makan malam. Saat itu terdengar suara ketukan pintu di luar rumah.
Ketika pintu dibuka, tampak seorang gadis yang cantik sedang berdiri di depan pintu. Kepalanya dipenuhi dengan salju. "Masuklah, nona pasti kedinginan, silahkan hangatkan badanmu dekat tungku," ujar Yosaku. "Nona mau pergi kemana sebenarnya ?", Tanya Yosaku. "Aku bermaksud mengunjungi temanku, tetapi karena salju turun dengan lebat, aku jadi tersesat." "Bolehkah aku menginap disini malam ini ?". "Boleh saja Nona, tapi aku ini orang miskin, tak punya kasur dan makanan." ,kata Yosaku. "Tidak apa-apa, aku hanya ingin diperbolehkan menginap". Kemudian gadis itu merapikan kamarnya dan memasak makanan yang enak.
Ketika terbangun keesokan harinya, gadis itu sudah menyiapkan nasi. Yosaku berpikir bahwa gadis itu akan segera pergi, ia merasa kesepian. Salju masih turun dengan lebatnya. "Tinggallah disini sampai salju reda." Setelah lima hari berlalu salju mereda. Gadis itu berkata kepada Yosaku, "Jadikan aku sebagai istrimu, dan biarkan aku tinggal terus di rumah ini." Yosaku merasa bahagia menerima permintaan itu. "Mulai hari ini panggillah aku Otsuru", ujar si gadis. Setelah menjadi Istri Yosaku, Otsuru mengerjakan pekerjaan rumah dengan sungguh-sungguh. Suatu hari, Otsuru meminta suaminya, Yosaku, membelikannya benang karena ia ingin menenun.
Otsuru mulai menenun. Ia berpesan kepada suaminya agar jangan sekali-kali mengintip ke dalam penyekat tempat Otsuru menenun. Setelah tiga hari berturut-turut menenun tanpa makan dan minum, Otsuru keluar. Kain tenunannya sudah selesai. "Ini tenunan ayanishiki. Kalau dibawa ke kota pasti akan terjual dengan harga mahal. Yosaku sangat senang karena kain tenunannya dibeli orang dengan harga yang cukup mahal. Sebelum pulang ia membeli bermacam-macam barang untuk dibawa pulang. "Berkat kamu, aku mendapatkan uang sebanyak ini, terima kasih istriku. Tetapi sebenarnya para saudagar di kota menginginkan kain seperti itu lebih banyak lagi. "Baiklah akan aku buatkan", ujar Otsuru. Kain itu selesai pada hari keempat setelah Otsuru menenun. Tetapi tampak Otsuru tidak sehat, dan tubuhnya menjadi kurus. Otsuru meminta suaminya untuk tidak memintanya menenun lagi.
Di kota, Sang Saudagar minta dibuatkan kain satu lagi untuk Kimono tuan Putri. Jika tidak ada maka Yosaku akan dipenggal lehernya. Hal itu diceritakan Yosaku pada istrinya. "Baiklah akan ku buatkan lagi, tetapi hanya satu helai ya", kata Otsuru.
Karena cemas dengan kondisi istrinya yang makin lemah dan kurus setiap habis menenun, Yosaku berkeinginan melihat ke dalam ruangan tenun. Tetapi ia sangat terkejut ketika yang dilihatnya di dalam ruang menenun, ternyata seekor bangau sedang mencabuti bulunya untuk ditenun menjadi kain. Sehingga badan bangau itu hampir gundul kehabisan bulu. Bangau itu akhirnya sadar dirinya sedang diperhatikan oleh Yosaku, bangau itu pun berubah wujud kembali menjadi Otsuru. "Akhirnya kau melihatnya juga", ujar Otsuru.
"Sebenarnya aku adalah seekor bangau yang dahulu pernah Kau tolong", untuk membalas budi aku berubah wujud menjadi manusia dan melakukan hal ini," ujar Otsuru. "Berarti sudah saatnya aku berpisah denganmu", lanjut Otsuru. "Maafkan aku, ku mohon jangan pergi," kata Yosaku. Otsuru akhirnya berubah kembali menjadi seekor bangau. Kemudian ia segera mengepakkan sayapnya terabng keluar dari rumah ke angkasa. Tinggallah Yosaku sendiri yang menyesali perbuatannya.
REPLY GRATITUDE CRANES
Yore somewhere in Japan, life of a
young man named Yosaku. It works pick up firewood in the mountains and sold it
to the city. Money proceeds dibelikannya food. Continue like that every day.
Until one day when she was walking home from the city he sees something that is
floundering in the snow. After the dekatinya turned out to be a bird a stork
caught the trapped being thrashed. Yosaku immediately let go of it. The crane
was very excited, he circled overhead Yosaku several times before flying into
space. Because the weather is very cold, arriving at home, immediately turn on
the furnace fire Yosaku and prepare dinner. Then came the sound of knocking the
door outside the House.
When the door is opened, it appears a girl that beautiful was standing in front of the door. His head is filled with snow. "Come on in, Miss for sure freezing, please warm your body right near the furnace," stated Yosaku. "Miss would go exactly?", asked Yosaku. "I intend to visit my friend, but because it snowed with dense, I'm so lost." "Can I stay here tonight?". "Okay to miss, but I was poor, had no mattresses and food.", says Yosaku. "It's okay, I just want to be allowed to stay". Then the girl tidying her room and cooking foods that taste good.
When he woke up the next day, the girl is already preparing the rice. Yosaku think that girl will soon be gone, he feels lonely. The snow was still down by tarakan's heavy. "Stay here until the snow let up." After a five-day pass of snow to subside. The girl was said to Yosaku, "use me as your wife, and let me stay constantly in this House." Yosaku was happy to receive requests. "Start today call me Otsuru", said the girl. After becoming the wife of Yosaku, Otsuru homework earnestly. One day, asking her husband, Yosaku Otsuru, bought him because he wanted to weave the yarn.
Otsuru begin weaving. He sent a message to her husband to never take a peek into the screen where Otsuru weave. After three consecutive days of weaving without eating and drinking, Otsuru out. His woven cloth is finished. "These weavings ayanishiki. If brought to the city would have been sold at prices prohibitive. Yosaku was very pleased because the fabric tenunannya purchased the prices quite expensive. Before returning home he bought an assortment of goodies to take home. "Thanks to you, I get this kind of money, thank you my wife. But actually the merchant in the town wanted a fabric like it even more. "Alright I'll string together", says Otsuru. The fabric was completed on the fourth day after Otsuru weave. But it looks unhealthy Otsuru, and his body becomes thin. Asked her husband not to Otsuru asked him to weave again.
In town, The Merchant asked to make another one for Kimono fabric master's daughter. If there isn't then it will be truncated neck Yosaku. It is told in his wife Yosaku. "Let my will create again, but only one strand of Yes", says Otsuru.
Because anxious with the condition of his wife's
increasingly weak and thin out any weaving, Yosaku desirous of seeing into the
room weaving. But he was shocked when he saw in the room weaving, it turns out
a Heron was plucked feathers to be woven into cloth. So the Stork was almost
bare of feathers. Stork was finally aware of him being noticed by Yosaku, Stork
was turned back into a form of Otsuru. "Finally you see it too", says
Otsuru.
"Actually I was a stork that
once You please", to return the favor I in human and do this, "said
Otsuru. "Means it's high time I parted with you", advanced Otsuru.
"I'm sorry, please don't leave me," stated Yosaku. Otsuru eventually
changed back into a crane. Then he soon flutter its wings terabng out of the
House into space. Abide Yosaku himself who repent.
