"Spoiler" Shibahama

〇story

We often see people who have trouble with alcohol.

There was a man in the Edo period.

the man was a merchant to sell edible fish.

The sashimi he sells was very delicious and had a good reputation.

Every day, he went to the fish market of shiba early in the morning and sold it to regular customers.

Although he worked hard, he started to go out after drinking alcohol.

Gradually, the amount of alcohol he drink increased and finally he stopped to go to work.

His wife was in great trouble since he was always drunk.

One day, finally his wife couldn't stand it and pleaded for him to go to work.

He reluctantly went out to work, However, he came back in a fidgety manner at a very early time.

Actually, He arrived at the market too early and the market wasn't open yet.
He didn't have anything to do, he went to the beach near the market and went into the sea to get rid of a hangover.
At that time, something wrapped around his leg.
When he got out of the sea and looked it up, he found a wallet with lots of gold coins.

He proudly said to his wife "let's buy beautiful clothes and go on a trip in the near future". and he called his friends and drank a lot.

He repeatedly said, "Happy day, happy day."

Later that, He was awakened by his wife.
Her wife asked, "How do you pay for that extravagant dish? You said it was a happy day, but what's the matter? "

He said, "You can pay with that gold coins."
His wife said, "What's the story? You had a dream, right?"

He changed his mind and vowed to "stop drinking and work hard." And he also asked his wife to help him pay off his debt.

A year later he paid off his debt.

Two more years later, he moved from an old nagaya and opened his own fish store along the street.

On New Year's Eve, my wife confessed that the gold coin was not a dream.

She thought that it's likely that he would have ran out of it soon and It was just a lost item, so if it was revealed, he might have been caught by the police.

She delivered it to the police, but it became theirs because the owner did not appear after a few years.

She apologized to him for lying.
He didn't get angry, but rather thanked her.

She gave him a liquor.
She thought he could no longer be an alcoholic.

He said. "After all, I'll stop. I don't want to be told that my life was just a dream. "

〇notes

・shibahama is the beach near the fish market of shiba, shiba is the area near the sea in Tokyo.

・Edo period=1603-1868, Meiji=1868-1912, Taisho=1912-1926, Showa=1926-1989, Heisei=1989-2019, Reiwa=2019-

・sashimi=Japanese delicacy consisting of fresh raw fish or meat sliced into thin pieces and often eaten with soy sauce and wasabi.

・nagaya=Rental housing. One building is divided horizontally and each is an independent dwelling unit having a front door.