“The Wise Old Woman” retold by Yoshiko Uchida was a story about a cruel young ruler of a village who decreed that anyone over the age of seventy-one will be brought up to the mountains to die, and he was happy with his village until another cruel leader by the name of Lord Higa threatened to take over their village if they didn’t meet his tasks, until a farmer’s mother (who was over seventy-one but her son didn’t want to kill her so he hid her instead) started finding the answers to Lord Higa's “impossible” tasks, and when the young lord asked him how he solved them the farmer said, in a scared manner, that his mother was the one who solved the tasks. Expecting to be punished the lord surprisingly had a change of heart toward the elderly and
