Talk:四季折の羽 (Shikiori no Hane)/@comment-27794238-20160401011247/@comment-68.116.4.30-20160525172652

The song is based on an old Japanese tale, formed from two (The Crane Wife and The Greatful Crane). The entire song is based on the story, which goes like this:

A hunter was going about his routes to take his traps back home. He found a crane in one of the traps and let the crane go, since it was not meant for that animal. Later that winter, in a terrible storm, a woman showed up at the Hunter's door and claimed to be the crane that he saved not that long ago. Of course, she was the crane. They got married and were happy with their lives.

Later in the year the Hunter caught a disease that made him cough up and puke blood, making him bedridden and not able to work. They couldn't afford the only cure for the disease, so the Crane worked in his name. How she did it was plucking her own feathers to make a silk to sell at the market, leaving her hands bloody in her human form. She loses her singing voice from overworking and her hands become rough from weaving so much fabric. She becomes depressed for she thinks that the Hunter would not love her for not having the things he thought were beautiful.

Days go on yada yada and the Crane comes to her last feather. Upon plucking it, she would shortley turn back into a crane and would no longer be the human that the Hunter fell in love with. She still didn't make the money to get the medicine, and when she plucked her last feather the Hunter came up behind her to hug her before she turned back into a crane.

Once she did, the Hunter died.