[Machine Translation] Murata Kodota, the son of a hawk master of the Matsumae clan, was nicknamed "Otani no Kotengu" (little tengu) in Edo...and his grandson, Shintaro, led a checkered life in various jobs, although he considered writing to be his true calling. This is the history of two families, Murata and Sawada, who lived through the Edo, Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods.