Baba Thet - Matasey and Foreign Stories

Kanaya and his wife, Keiju, live in a small village in Japan. They have many beautiful things, but neither of them is happy.

Why are they not happy? The couple doesn't have a child. The couple, who love children, don't have a child of their own, but they are not happy. They are both very happy to have a child.

When night came, his wife, Kiju, would go to the window, look up at the sky, and pray to their god, Jizo.

"Please grant me a child, O Lord God. Since our disciples are of advanced age, please grant me a son or a daughter."

They look up at the sky and pray every night. They worry that they won't have children when they get older. So they pray to the god Jizo every night. They're a poor couple, you guys.

No matter how much Keju prayed, the couple could not have children. Did the god Jizo not hear his prayers?

One day, a Keju went out to the shops. That evening, Keju returned home very happy. Seeing his wife returning home from the shops very happy, her husband Kanaya felt strange and asked her:

"Hey, ma'am... why are you so happy?" I asked. Keju said.

"Now.. look here, man..." he said, opening a box in his hand. When Kanaya looked inside the box, he saw... a really beautiful doll.

When her husband saw the doll...

"That's Tokutaro, man," said Kei. The doll is so beautiful, children. Kanaya, who is a man, also looked at the doll.

"Your doll is just like a real child. It's not even a doll," he replied.

"Is it really alive? Where did you get this? Tell me about yourself?" the children asked. Yes... the doll is really alive and it's hard to mistake it for a child.

Knowing that her husband was very surprised, Kiju said, "Come on, brother... I'll explain. Listen."

Chapter (2)

“Last week, I went to a shop. I saw a doll in the shop, my brother. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. I couldn't stop looking at it. So I went home.

When I got home, my brother... I couldn't get the image of this cute little doll out of my head. Its little eyes were staring back at me, like a real baby. So I went to that shop every day. I looked at that little doll. And the doll looked back at me, every day, my brother.

After four days of living like this, I couldn't stand it anymore. I asked the owner.

"How much is this doll?"

"This toy is 20 rupees."

So I turned around and left without saying anything to the shopkeeper. Yes, man, how can we poor people afford 20 rupees? I felt sad inside.

I couldn't buy anything, and I couldn't see the doll, so I had to go to that shop every day, look at the doll, and then go home.

Today, the shop owner told me something strange about the doll.

"I have to tell you about this doll, big sister. It's a very strange doll. I've been looking at this doll all week and it looks sad. Its eyes are wet with tears, big sister, it doesn't even look like a doll anymore."

"Oh.. Last night, I couldn't sleep and the goddess Jizo appeared to me in a dream. What Jizo said in the dream was that you should give this doll to a woman named Keiju. She also said that she would get this doll."

The shop owner explained this to me and said, "Brother...

"Here, here's the doll, big sister, take it. His name is Tokutaru," she said, handing it to me.

So before I bought the doll, I asked the shopkeeper...

"Here, all I can afford is five rupees. I asked the shopkeeper to accept that money, so I handed it over to him and brought the doll, brother."

After his wife explained, Kanaya looked at the doll again...

"What a beautiful doll," he said. The doll was really lively and cute.

Kiju replied, "Yes, man, don't you love this doll too? I'm very, very happy to have this doll."

The couple were smiling happily after receiving this doll.

“Yes, yes, I love this doll too. I thank you for bringing me this doll. From now on, we will love this doll. It doesn’t matter if it is alive or not,” the husband said.

Hearing her husband say that, she said, "Don't tell me that Ki has no life, man. I'll have to explain it to you."

Yesterday, a woman told me..." she explained.

"What that woman said was that once upon a time, just like we are now, a couple loved a doll very much. One day, the doll really came to life. Don't you think our doll could be like that too?" Kiju asked her husband.

Chapter (3)

The next morning, Kanaya said this to his wife.

"Well... Ma'am... Brother, why don't you make a chair for our little Tokutaro?" Keiju said.

"I'll have to sew clothes for the baby too," she replied weakly.

They are suffering like a couple who are desperate for a baby because they can't have a child, you guys.

So, a couple who were crazy about their baby decided to bathe their Tokuta Ro doll.

The couple bathed the doll as carefully as they would bathe a real baby.