ある家に、その家で死んだ女性の幽霊が現れるようになった。一家はさまざまな方策で幽霊を成仏させようとするが、ことごとく失敗して僧侶に助けを求める。

僧侶は幽霊を恐れず、成仏するようにやさしく諭した。そして、幽霊がいつも箪笥の前に現れることから生前気がかりだったものが入っているのではないかと推測した。 しかし、一家は何度もその箪笥を捜索していたが幽霊は成仏しなかったと言う。

The ghost of a woman who had died in a house began to appear in the house. The family tries various ways to make the ghost go away, but all of them fail and they ask a monk for help.

The monk gently reminded them not to fear the ghost, but to become Buddha. The monk told the family not to be afraid of the ghost, but to try to attain Buddhahood. The ghost always appeared in front of the chest, and the monk guessed that it might contain something that had been bothering him during his life. However, the family had searched the chest many times, but the ghost never came to rest.

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