batch.motif.japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki-gutenberg-l3290-l3387
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record_id: batch.motif.japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki-gutenberg-l3290-l3387
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
passage_locator:
label: THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE
STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD;
lines 3290-3387
start: '3290'
end: '3387'
translation: Japanese Fairy Tales
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A dying mother gives her daughter a mirror and tells her that, after death,
the daughter may see her in it for comfort. After the mother dies, the daughter
grieves, remembers the gift, looks into the mirror, and believes the reflected
face is her mother's soul. The mirror consoles her and reinforces her effort to
become gentle, kind, and dutiful. Later the father remarries, and the new stepmother
begins treating the girl unkindly and trying to separate father and child.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The mother, near death, asks her daughter to care for her father and to be
a good and dutiful woman.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The mother takes a square wooden box tied with a silken cord and tassels from
beside her pillow and removes a mirror from it.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The mother gives the mirror to her daughter as a parting gift and says the
daughter will see her in its clear surface when lonely.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The mother dies quietly after giving the mirror.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The daughter grieves intensely and, while alone doing household duties, remembers
her mother's words about the mirror.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The daughter looks into the mirror and sees a young and beautiful face she
identifies as her mother.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The daughter believes she is seeing her mother's soul in the mirror and that
her mother has come to comfort her.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The daughter looks into the mirror every morning and evening for strength
and consolation.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The daughter becomes gentle, kind, and dutiful toward her father.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: After a year of mourning, the father remarries, and the daughter comes under
a stepmother's authority.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: The stepmother begins treating the girl unkindly and tries to come between
father and child.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: dying mother
description: The girl's mother, who gives her daughter a mirror before dying and
urges her to be dutiful.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: daughter
description: A young girl who receives the mirror, grieves for her mother, believes
the mirror shows her mother's soul, and tries to live dutifully.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: father
description: The bereaved husband and father whom the daughter is asked to care
for; after a year he remarries.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: stepmother
description: The father's second wife, who later treats the motherless girl unkindly
and tries to come between father and child.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: dying parent
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The mother speaks of her imminent death and dies after giving instructions
and the mirror.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: giver of remembrance token
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: She gives the mirror to her daughter as an object by which to remember and
meet her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: bereaved child
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The daughter mourns her dead mother and longs to see her face again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: filial daughter
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: She tries to follow her mother's instruction and becomes dutiful toward her
father and later toward her father's wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: surviving father
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: He is left bereaved after his wife's death and later remarries.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: unkind stepmother
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: She begins to treat the girl unkindly and attempts to divide father and child.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: mirror of remembrance
literal_form: mirror kept in a square wooden box with silken cord and tassels
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:2
label: mother's reflected face
literal_form: young and beautiful face seen in the round mirror
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: parting gift
literal_form: mirror handed from dying mother to daughter before death
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Dying mother's charge and gift
summary: The mother tells her daughter to care for her father, gives her a mirror,
and explains that the daughter may see her in it after death.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Death and mourning
summary: The mother dies quietly, and the father and daughter experience intense
grief before accepting the burial and continuing in sorrow.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Daughter sees the mother in the mirror
summary: While grieving alone, the daughter remembers the mirror, looks into it,
sees a face she takes to be her mother, and believes the mother's soul has come
to comfort her.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Daily consolation and moral imitation
summary: The daughter uses the mirror morning and evening for strength and consolation
and grows in likeness to her mother's character.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Arrival of the stepmother
summary: After a year of mourning, the father remarries; the daughter resolves to
be dutiful, but the stepmother eventually treats her unkindly and tries to separate
father and child.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: dying parent gives a remembrance token
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The dying mother gives her daughter a mirror as a parting gift and explains
how it will preserve contact and memory after death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the mirror as a consoling object; no broader taxonomy
reference is directly supplied for this specific token motif.
- id: motif:2
label: mirror as medium for the dead beloved parent
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The daughter looks into the mirror, sees a face she identifies as her mother,
and believes it is her mother's soul comforting her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The narration presents the girl's belief in the reflection; it does not
explicitly confirm a supernatural apparition.
- id: motif:3
label: filial virtue sustained by memory of the dead mother
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The mother's instruction and the daughter's daily mirror practice lead the
girl to become gentle, kind, and dutiful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference to wisdom is broad and moral rather than a precise
named motif.
- id: motif:4
label: unkind stepmother threatens father-child bond
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: After the father remarries, the stepmother begins treating the girl unkindly
and trying to come between father and child.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: Only the beginning of the stepmother conflict appears in this passage;
later developments are outside the supplied text.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 3290-3301
quote_or_summary: The mother tells her daughter that nothing can save her, asks
her to care for her father, and explains that her death is ordained by a previous
state of existence.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 3302-3307
quote_or_summary: The mother takes a square wooden box tied with silken cord and
tassels from beside the pillow and removes the mirror her husband had once given
her.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 3308-3320
quote_or_summary: The mother gives the mirror to her daughter and says that, after
she is gone, the daughter will see her in the clear shining surface and may tell
her all her heart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 3321-3331
quote_or_summary: The mother dies quietly; father and daughter grieve intensely
before regaining some resignation and committing the body to the earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 3332-3346
quote_or_summary: The daughter remains desolate, remembers her mother in ordinary
sights and sounds, weeps alone in her mother's room, and recalls the mother's
last words about the mirror.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 3347-3357
quote_or_summary: The daughter takes out the mirror, gazes into it, and sees the
face of her mother as young and beautiful, not wasted by illness.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 3358-3363
quote_or_summary: The daughter states that it is certainly her mother's soul and
believes her mother has come to comfort her through the mirror.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 3364-3373
quote_or_summary: Every morning and evening the girl gazes at the mirror for strength
and consolation, believes the reflection to be her mother's soul, and grows gentle,
kind, and dutiful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 3374-3383
quote_or_summary: After a year of mourning, the father remarries; the daughter is
under a stepmother's authority and resolves to be filial and dutiful to her father's
wife.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 3384-3387
quote_or_summary: The stepmother's heart is not as her first smiles were; she begins
to treat the motherless girl unkindly and tries to come between father and child.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/japanese/project-gutenberg/japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage clearly supports extraction of figures, objects, scenes, and
local motifs. Taxonomy alignment is limited because the available motif list does
not include a precise mirror/remembrance-token category. No comparison claims
were added because the passage itself does not support cross-text comparison.
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: |-
Extraction uses only the supplied passage and metadata; supernatural status of the mirror is recorded as the daughter's belief rather than as confirmed narration.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:japanese-fairy-tales-ozaki-gutenberg__l3290-l3387
passage_sha256=10518e4f46b2352b1e2866e4aa0c7ba9deea37f26ddbcb94935ad87c9b176573