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http://thedrinkingbirdblog.com/2008/...ds-crane-wife/

the story of the Crane Wife, from which the album is titled, is an old Japanese tale of a poor rural man who finds a wounded crane on his doorstep one day, takes it in and nurses it back to health. After releasing the crane, a woman appears at his home. They fall in love and are married. Because they are poor, the woman offers to weave clothes out of silk that they can sell, but only if he agrees never to watch her make them. They become wealthy and the man makes her weave more and more, not realizing that his wife is becoming sick. He peeks in one day to see what makes the silk so special, and discovers that a crane is at the loom, plucking her feathers and weaving them into the cloth. Seeing him, she flies away never to return.



thinking now about crane flyway!

http://www.sibeflyway.org/