From his room in the inn Takadai Jiro tried to see Kinu. However in the daytime O Kino was out in the sea with her father. She generally returned in the dusk of the evening and in the dim light of the evening and subsequent night, Takadai Jiro could not see her clearly.
Once Takadai Jiro tried to speak to O Kino but she had nothing to say to him. She just continued helping her father to carry the net and the fish to their cottage.
At last Takadai decided that he had to do something about it. He called his most confidential servant and sent the servant to O Kino’s hut with a letter.
O Kino read the letter but she did not write a letter in reply to it. She asked the servant to tell Takadai Jiro that she was very grateful for the letter and his proposal of marriage. But she said that no good would come out of a union between someone who was of high birth and a diving girl. And that it would make them a badly matched couple and they would never make a happy home.
Takadai Jiro was shocked when he heard the words of O Kino.
After some time Takadai Jiro thought that O Kino San had refused his proposal out of coyness and decided to wait for a day or two, so that O Kino may reconsider.
Takadai Jiro stayed in his room for the next three days believing that O Kino was also pining for him.
On the fourth day, he wrote another letter to O Kino full of love and sent it through his servant and waited for a reply.
Adapted from Japanese Folk-lore
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