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Hachigoro is dreaming. Then he is woken by his wife and asks the content of his dream, but he can’t remember it anyway. Finally, he says that he doesn’t dream, but she won’t believe that, saying that he talked in his sleep, so he surely dreamed. A quarrel starts―"You dreamed, did n't you?’‘ "No, I did not dream at all." ’ He fires up and hits her at last. She cries. "You hit me! Come on, punch me as you want to." =====

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Tatsuko, their neighbor, thinks this is a serious affair and comes to reconcile the fight. Tatsuko barely calms Hachigoro’s wife and settles the quarrel. However, Tatsuko begins to mind the content of his dream. Tatsuko also starts to quarrel with Hachigoro and their landlord passing by outside tries to reconcile them. But the landlord also begins to mind the content of his dream. He somehow tries to get to know the content from Hachigoro, but he can’t explain what he dreamed. The landlord cries,"Get out here,"and Hachigoro retorts to him "I won’t get out. " the landlord says "If you don’t get out, I will sue you." =====

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Hachigoro is led to the court. The judge defends Hachigoro at first, but gradually he also begins to mind the content of his dream. He asks Hachigoro and Hacigoro claims that he didn’t dream, so the judge gets angry and has a few followers hang Hachigoro on the tree in the yard. When Hachigoro thinks why he has such troubles, the wind blows hard and he is taken to Mt. Kurama by the wind. =====

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As he raises his head, there is a Japanese long-nosed goblin in front of him. The goblin says that the judge can’t judge Hachigoro, so the goblin helps Hachigoro. Hachigoro thanks the goblin, but the goblin also begins to mind the content of the dream in listening Hachigoro’s explanation. The goblin asks the content, and Hachigoro explodes at last and tells rudely the goblin that he didn’t dream. The goblin gets angry and strangles Hchigoro. =====

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" Help me! " he shouts and wakes up, and there is his wife beside him sleeping. He realizes that this is a dream and feels a relief. Then the wife asks‘What dream did you have?’ =====