岐阜县高山市是日本人的心中的故乡。

我的名字叫小嶋尚。我住在岐阜县高山市。会中文的朋友们，欢迎来日本的飛騨高山观光。现在高山市生活的日本人，从前的生活还残留在。高山的特产是高山拉面。

我在英国有英语网址。

The Fox at the Sanfukuji Mountain Pass

Once upon in a time, there was a fox that was fooling local passers-by in the night, at the Sanfukuji mountain pass, it became a rumor among local people.

Some stories were told by people, such as “Well, last night Tarosaku was walking around in the rice field.” or “Tiyobei rubbed one of the cedar’s trunks at the mountain pass.”

In Sanfukuji, there was a youth – Jinsuke. When he heard the stories, he got upset.

He thought “It is just audacious for a fox to fool local people.” And “It is shameful for locals too. Probably, they drank too much Japanese sake, and then they couldn’t distinguish between a road and a rice field. Now, I will subjugate the fox.”

One night, he climbed Sanfukuji mountain pass, carrying an oak club, as he was wetting his eyebrow with his spit. ＊In Japanese society this action expresses disbelief. When he reached the summit, nothing appeared. And then he stared around him, but nothing happened. He muttered, “Sure enough, because I came here, the fox has run away in fear of me.” And he had started to descend the pass. When he reached a place where the mountain road passed beneath a cedar and then turned a rocky corner, he saw a strange thing.

As the light of the half moon was dim, he could not see clearly, but it was the fox on a rock along the mountain road. When Jinsuke gripped the oak club tightly again in his hand, he noticed that the fox was doing a strange thing. “Well, it is an interesting thing to watch the metamorphosis of the fox to tell other people about.”