batch.motif.japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki-gutenberg-l1301-l1411
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record_id: batch.motif.japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki-gutenberg-l1301-l1411
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
passage_locator:
label: MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO,
THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER; lines 1301-1411
start: '1301'
end: '1411'
translation: Japanese Fairy Tales
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: 'After the badger kills and cooks the farmer''s wife, the farmer grieves.
A rabbit hears him, promises revenge, and repeatedly deceives the badger: first
by luring him to cut grass and setting his load on fire, then by applying a painful
red-pepper mixture as false medicine, and finally by preparing a fishing trip
with one wooden boat and one clay boat.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The badger escapes from the farmer's house and runs to his den in the hills.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The farmer understands that his wife has been killed and cooked by the badger
and that he nearly drank soup made from her.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The farmer cries and rocks himself in grief after learning what happened to
his wife.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: A rabbit living nearby hears the farmer crying, visits him, hears the story,
and promises to avenge the wife's death.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The rabbit finds the badger hiding in his den and invites him to cut grass
on the hills.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The badger trusts the rabbit and goes with him to cut grass far from their
homes.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The rabbit makes the badger walk first while each carries a bundle of cut
grass.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The rabbit uses flint and steel to set the badger's bundle of grass on fire.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The rabbit falsely explains the striking and crackling sounds by naming the
places Crackling Mountain and Burning Mountain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: The badger's back is burned, and he runs to his hole in pain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:11
text: The rabbit makes a mixture of sauce and red pepper and presents it as medicine
for burns.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: The red-pepper mixture causes the badger severe pain after it is applied to
his burned back.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:13
text: After the badger recovers, the rabbit plans another attempt to bring about
his death.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:14
text: The rabbit speaks of fishing, the badger asks to go, and the rabbit builds
two boats, one of wood and one of clay.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: old man / farmer
description: A farmer whose wife has been killed by the badger; he grieves and is
comforted by the rabbit.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: badger
description: A deceitful animal who killed and cooked the farmer's wife, hides in
a den, trusts the rabbit, and is burned and tormented by the rabbit's schemes.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: rabbit
description: A nearby good-natured rabbit who hears the farmer's grief, promises
vengeance, and deceives the badger through several punitive schemes.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: farmer's wife
description: The farmer's faithful old wife, described as having been killed and
cooked by the badger.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: bereaved farmer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The old man learns his wife was killed and cooked and cries in grief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: offender
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The badger is described as having killed and cooked the farmer's wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: avenging helper
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The rabbit comes to help the farmer and promises to avenge the wife's death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: deceptive punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The rabbit deceives the badger with friendly invitations, false explanations,
and false medicine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: deceived target of revenge
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The badger trusts the rabbit and suffers the effects of the rabbit's schemes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: murdered spouse
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The passage says the farmer's wife had been killed by the badger.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: fire from flint and steel
literal_form: Flint and steel set the badger's dry grass bundle on fire.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: mountain and hills
literal_form: The badger's den is in the hills, and the grass-cutting trap occurs
on the hills; the rabbit invokes Crackling Mountain and Burning Mountain in his
explanations.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: den or hole
literal_form: The badger hides in his den and later runs back to his hole after
being burned.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: false medicine
literal_form: A mixture of sauce and red pepper applied to burns as supposed healing
ointment.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: paired boats
literal_form: Two boats built by the rabbit, one of wood and one of clay.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: sea fishing
literal_form: The rabbit describes fishing when the weather is fine and the sea
smooth.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Farmer's grief after the badger's crime
summary: The badger escapes to the hills, and the farmer realizes his wife has been
killed and cooked; he grieves intensely.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Rabbit vows revenge
summary: The rabbit hears the farmer crying, learns what happened, becomes angry
at the badger, and tells the farmer he will avenge the wife's death.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Grass-cutting lure
summary: The rabbit finds the badger hiding in his den and persuades him to go to
the hills to cut grass, which the badger does because he trusts the rabbit.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Burning bundle punishment
summary: While the badger walks ahead carrying dry grass, the rabbit ignites it
with flint and steel and gives deceptive explanations for the noises until the
badger is burned.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Red-pepper false cure
summary: The rabbit brings a sauce-and-red-pepper mixture to the injured badger,
calls it medicine, applies it, and the badger suffers severe pain.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Fishing plan and two boats
summary: After the badger recovers, the rabbit plans another attempt, encourages
the badger's interest in fishing, and builds a wooden boat and a clay boat.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: animal helper avenges a murdered spouse
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The rabbit, a neighboring animal, hears the farmer's grief and promises to
avenge the death of the farmer's wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives only this segment of the revenge sequence and does not
present a formal moral or ritual frame.
- id: motif:2
label: trickster revenge through deceptive friendship
taxonomy_refs:
- trickster_boundary
basis: The rabbit repeatedly poses as the badger's friend or helper while arranging
harmful traps and false remedies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The rabbit's deception is framed as vengeance rather than mischievous
trickery alone.
- id: motif:3
label: punitive fire trap
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The rabbit sets fire to the badger's grass bundle while the badger carries
it, causing burns.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a localized punitive use of fire, not evidence for a cosmic or
world-destroying fire motif.
- id: motif:4
label: false medicine that worsens suffering
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The rabbit presents a red-pepper mixture as healing medicine, but it causes
the badger agony.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The episode is part of a revenge chain; the passage does not indicate
an independent healing-test motif.
- id: motif:5
label: unequal paired boats prepared for a lethal fishing trick
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The rabbit plans the badger's death, invites him into a fishing outing, and
builds one wooden boat and one clay boat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The outcome of the boat plan is not included in the supplied passage,
so the lethal function is only planned, not completed here.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1301-1316
quote_or_summary: The badger escapes to his den in the hills; the old man realizes
the badger killed and cooked his wife and that he nearly drank the soup made from
her, then grieves aloud.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1316-1327
quote_or_summary: A nearby good-natured rabbit hears the farmer crying, learns the
story, becomes angry at the badger, and tells the farmer he will avenge the wife's
death.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1329-1350
quote_or_summary: The rabbit plans punishment, finds the badger hiding in his den,
invites him to cut grass on the hills, and the badger trusts him and goes along.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1350-1374
quote_or_summary: On the way home, the rabbit makes the badger walk first, ignites
his bundle of grass with flint and steel, explains the noises as Crackling Mountain
and Burning Mountain, and the badger runs home with his back burned.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 1375-1391
quote_or_summary: The rabbit says he will bring medicine, makes an ointment from
sauce and red pepper, warns it will hurt but calls it wonderful medicine, applies
it to the badger's back, and the badger howls in pain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1392-1411
quote_or_summary: After the badger recovers, the rabbit thinks of another plan to
kill him, talks about fishing, agrees to take the badger, and builds two boats,
one of wood and one of clay.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif candidates are cautious
because the line range ends before the fishing-boat plan is resolved. No comparison
claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly compare this
episode to another tradition or motif family.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
All observations and motif candidates are limited to the provided excerpt from the public-domain English retelling.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki-gutenberg__l1301-l1411
passage_sha256=cefb6af71d64c0f9e12a9226cd31a7debd8dacf02de6a344392b588a6fb45205