Stories · By the Water

The Twin Pines and the Moon-Road

11 min · Japan · Comfort · Wonder

On a still, moonlit night in a coastal pine grove, an old man and an old woman sweep fallen needles beneath a leaning black pine, and learn from the pine wind itself that love, like the moon-road on the water, may waver but never breaks, joining two distant shores as one.

Retold from Japanese Fairy Tales, by Grace James.

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Story 12 of By the Water, starting at 2:29:44.