A long time ago, there lived a very old grandfather the woodcutter and his wife.
One day, when he went up a mountain to cut wood,
the woodcutter found two fans.
One was red fan and the other was blue fan.
"Oh, I wonder who left these here?" exclaimed the woodcutter.
And, feeling hot from the hard work he had been
doing,
he began to fan himself with red fan one.
Can you guess what happened? His nose grew.
"Oh my! Why is my nose so long? What can I do?" The woodcutter held his nose.
He couldn't imagine what to do.
After a while, he picked up blue fan and wondering what would happen, fanned his nose.
To his amazement, his nose returned to its normal size.
"Hmm, this is amazing. I guess these are magic fans."
Theold woodcutter returned house
and called loudly to his wife,
"Hey honey, come see this.""Look at my nose"
he said, fanning himself with the red fan.
What in the world happened to you?"
exclaimed his startled wife.
"What should we do?""
The old man
smiled and fanned her face.
She grabbed her nose and screamed.
"Why did you do that to me?
"Then the old man fanned the two of them with the blue fan
and their
nose became smaller and returned to normal.
The old man and woman enjoyed themselves with the
amazing fans.
But soon the old man had an evil thought.
"How can I make a lot of money with these magical
fans?"
he asked himself.
After a few days, he heard about a sixtieth
birthday party
for a wealthy man in a nearby village.
The old woodcutter hid the red fan in his sleeve
and went to the rich man's
house.
He went up to the rich man,
who was sweating a lot because he had been eating,
drinking, and dancing,
and said nonchalantly,
"Sir, it surely is hot today, isn't it?"
He pretended to cool the man with
red fan .
And, of course, the rich man's
nose began to grow.
When the man's nose
was noticeably larger,
the woodcutter hid the fans.
As people noticed the rich man's nose, they
began to say,
"Sir, what's wrong with your nose?"
Or "Your nose is as big as my fist."
"What? What about my nose?"
asked the rich and he began to
feel his nose
with
his hands. Alas, it was as big as a turnip.
He fell down astonished.
The rich man called in many doctor,
but not one could cure his nose.
"Put up a notice that says a person
who cures my nose shall be rewarded with big money
" he ordered his servants.
The old woodcutter saw the notice and said,
"A-ha, that's exactly what I
had in mind!"
After a few days, the old woodcutter
went to the rich man's house.
"Sir, I'll fix your nose."
"Oh, can you really?"
"Sure. Just close your eyes," said the woodcutter.
He took out the blue fan and fanned the rich man's face.
Naturally, therich man's nose returned to normal.
With the large reward he received,
the old woodcutter bought a huge house
He spent his days loafing and eating rich foods.
Then one day, he felt bored and thought,
"I wonder how long my nose will become if I keep
fanning
myself with the red fan."
He used the red fan all day long.
His nose became as long as a club pestle, and then so long he couldn't see
the end of it. It reached the sky
and broke through
the floor of heaven.
The king of heaven saw the tip of the man's nose
and got really angry.
"Who dares to break into heaven!" he yelled.
"Tie that rude man's nose to a pillar,"
he ordered the angels.
The angels did as they were told and tied the end of the woodcutter's
nose very tightly.
In his house, far below,
the woodcutter felt a pain in his nose.
"Hmm, why does my nose hurt so suddenly?
I'd better use the blue fan."
As soon as he fanned himself with the blue fan,
his body began to ascend toward heaven.
But then that was only natural,
the end of his nose being tied up in
heaven!
"Oh my, somebody help me!"
he cried as he struggled in the air.
Because of his struggling,
the end of his nose came untied and his body
began to fall toward earth.
Needless to say, you can imagine what happened.
