A fisherman's wife dies from illness, and he meets a woman who looks just like her on the rocks of a cape.  The white rabbit who lives on the island of Inaba tries to trick the crocodiles to let him cross the sea, but they strip off his skin. Doujimaru is said to be the son of the white fox, and to have inherited his mother's mysterious powers.
In the distant past, 
in the forest of Shinoda....
Érase una vez, en la era de 
Heian, en el bosque de Shinoda,
Érase una vez, en el bosque de 
Shinoda durante la era de Heian,
Em um passado distante,
 na floresta de Shinoda...