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魔王物語The Demon King's Tale
Maō Monogatari
by 田中 貢太郎 · Tanaka Kōtarō
A samurai faces off against a ghostly demon king in this chilling folktale.
About this story
About this storyAn unusual demon story from Bingo province about a young samurai.
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SourceThis text comes from Aozora Bunko (青空文庫), the volunteer-run library of Japanese writing that is out of copyright. See this work on Aozora Bunko
Base edition (底本): 「日本怪談全集 ※［＃ローマ数字2、1-13-22］」桃源社
1974（昭和49）年7月5日発行
1975（昭和50）年7月25日2刷
Typed in by Hiroshi_O. Proofread by 大野裕.
Yomimaru changed the spelling to modern kana and modern kanji, and replaced classical grammar and some archaic words with modern ones.
The furigana are Yomimaru's. In the app it is split into 2 parts.
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