家族の埋蔵財宝を守るネズミに生まれ変わったけちな女が、次々と強請る猫たちから救い出す策を考えた親切な石工が施した肉の贈り物に報い、隠された財宝を彼に明かす本生話。

A birth-story about a miserly woman reborn as a mouse guarding her family’s buried treasure, who repaid a kind stone-cutter’s small gifts of meat by revealing the hidden riches to him after he devised a trick to free her from a series of extorting cats.