Axe handle rotted

Tomonori is refering to a Chinese tale in which a woodcutter encounters two old men playing go (a board game) in the mountains. Fascinated, he watches the game for a short while, only to find that the handle of his axe has rotted away and, on returning to his home village, that everyone he knew is long dead.

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