Rai-Taro, the Son of the Thunder-God: A Legend from Japan

At the foot of the snowy mountain of Haku-san, in the province of Echizen, lived a peasant and his wife. They were very poor, for their little strip of barren mountain-land yielded but one scanty crop a year, while their neighbours in the valley gathered two rich harvests.
Rai-Taro, the Son of the Thunder-God: A Legend from Japan