A young, hardworking woodcutter lives with his mother and father. The woodworker and his mother are pleasant, contented people while the father is often bitter and ungrateful. The father often berates his son for being too poor to afford saké, and the son, devoted to serving his parents, grieves at his predicament. While working in the hills considering how to work harder to afford saké for his father, the young man hears running water where he normally didn’t before. Following the sound, the young man stumbles upon a beautiful little waterfall that leads into a quiet stream. The young man drinks the water and is delighted to find it is good saké. Filling a gourd with it, the young man brings it home to his father, who is also delighted. A neighbor visits this night and is given a cup of saké, and eventually the entire town visits the family and hears the story. The next morning the young man sets out to work again, carrying a large gourd to retrieve more saké. However, when he reaches the same area, his neighbors are already there carrying any sort of vessel to take some saké. The neighbors are disgruntled to see everyone there with the same motivations, until one person breaks the silence with laughter and goes to try the saké before everyone takes their fill and leaves. However, when the neighbor tries a sip, he’s shocked and angry to find that it’s regular water. In his anger, he says they should “duck him in his fine waterfall,” but the young man had already hidden himself. Each neighbor drinks from the stream, and each one only receives water. Eventually their ire dissipates and they leave, saddened. The young man, confused on the turn of events, drinks from the stream himself, and again finds the same fine saké. As a dutiful son, the waterfall provided him and not the others with high quality saké. The Emperor hears the story, and calling upon the woodcutter, rewards him for his filial piety and changes the name of the year for him to promote the same behavior from all children.

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