柴田備後の屋敷の女中頭が、深夜、便所に行こうとすると、誰も居ない部屋で猫が踊るのを見る。

女中頭はお家の評判に関わると黙っていたが、ある夜、その猫に額を叩かれて目を覚ました。

主人の備後に相談するが、主人は「捨て置け」と問題にしない。

その後、備後が趣味の猟のため、火縄銃の弾を鋳ていると、その姿をじっと見つめる猫の姿があった。

When the head maid of Shibata Bingo's mansion was going to the latrine late at night, she saw a cat dancing in an empty room.

The head maid kept quiet about it because it was a threat to the family's reputation, but one night she was awakened by the cat hitting her on the forehead.

One night, she wakes up after being struck on the forehead by the cat. She consults her master, Bingo, but he doesn't make an issue of it, saying, "Just throw it away.

Later, when Bingo was casting bullets for his flintlock rifle for his hobby of hunting, he saw the cat staring at him.

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