A man separates from his first wife and his daughter, but keeps his son with his second wife, who is urged by him to look after both the boy and the bamboo grove while he is on pilgrimage.A Waley, The Noh Plays of Japan (1976) p. 217 Suspecting the son has complained of her to his actual parents, the stepmother sends him out, coatless, to brush the winter snow off the bamboos.A Waley, The Noh Plays of Japan (1976) p. 220
