"you need not trouble yourself about that. to tell you the truth i am no woodcutter! i am one of the great generals of japan. my name is sadamitsu, and i am a vassal of the powerful lord minamoto-no-raiko. he ordered me to go round the country and look for boys who give promise of remarkable strength, so that they may be trained as soldiers for his army. i thought that i could best do this by assuming the disguise of a woodcutter. by good fortune, i have thus unexpectedly come across your son. now if you really wish him to be a samurai (a knight), i will take him and present him to the lord raiko as a candidate for his service.