ある男が田舎道を歩いていた
道端をふと見ると靴箱が落ちていた
中には新しい靴、家に持ち帰った
次の日、寺の用事に行くとき
拾った靴を履いた、ぴったりだ
境内を箒で履いていると
足に激痛が、靴がどんどん小さくなる
激痛で転げまわる
妖怪【きゅうくつ(窮靴)】の出現
足が1/3の大きさになったとき
靴はどこかに飛ん行った
A man was walking down a country road. He happened to look to the side of the road and saw a shoebox lying there. Inside were new shoes, so he took them home. The next day, when he went to run an errand at the temple, he put on the shoes he had found; they fit perfectly. As he was sweeping the temple grounds with a broom, he felt a sharp pain in his foot, and the shoes began to shrink. He rolled around in agony. The yokai, Kyūkutsu (the Poverty Shoes), had appeared. When his foot was reduced to one-third of its original size, the shoes flew away somewhere.
