Summary writing on old man selling kimono for rice cakes.

 In a mountainous region, there lived a poor, elderly couple from Japan. They were suffering the hard winter and needed to buy food. The wife tells her husband to sell her wedding kimono at the village market to buy rice cakes for the new year. The old man passes a strine with six statues on it and promises them an offering when he returns. Throughout his day at the market, the old man encountered many strangers with needs of their own and continually traded with them for lesser objects. On his way home, the elderly man gives all he has to the statues as a tribute. That night the statues left an enormous rice cake for the couple, that kept them fed for a long time, and the couple had good fortune for the rest of their lives.