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Hatsu Tenjin (First Tenjin Festival) 初天神. Children often bother their parents to buy them everything they see. This can be a great nuisance for parents. Kinbō, a little boy, wants to go to the Tenjin festival.
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Children often bother their parents to buy them everything they see. This can be a great nuisance for parents.
Kinbō, a little boy, wants to go to the Tenjin festival. His father doesn’t want to take him, because he will bother him with “buy me this, buy me that...”
Kinbō promises that he will not say “buy me this, buy me that...”
Finally Kinbō and his mother convince his father to take him to the festival.
As they go, Kinbō’s father tells him if he breaks his promise, he will throw him in the river, where there are monsters called kappa.
Kinbo: Kappa is an imaginary animal, and only stupid people believe in them.
Kinbō sees a family going to the festival in a rickshaw. He wonders why he has to walk. It’s hard having such a stingy father.
They see a child being swung along between his parents. He asks his father to swing him again and again.
Kinbō looks at his father laughing and says You are so easy to please.
They come to the festival. Kinbō marvels at all the people... and all the shops.
Daddy, I didn’t ask you to buy me things, right? Right. I kept my promise, right? Yes. You’ve been a good boy.
Kinbō spies a candy shop. He begs his father to buy him a candy.
Kinbō pays too much attention to his candy, and steps in a puddle.
His father whacks him on the back, and Kinbō spits out his candy.
He begs his father to buy him dango. Kinbō cheers up when he sees a dango dumpling shop.
Father says he should have anko (bean paste) dumplings, rather than mitsu (syrup), because the syrup will drip all over.
mitsu. (syrup) anko. (bean paste)
He begs his father to buy him a big kite. I want a big one. No, the big one is only to show.
Kinbō wants to fly the kite. The father first sends it up in the air.