Oh? That in front of your house...

Yeah. I feel a little bad, but you have to break some eggs...

Even then, though... I wonder if it's actually any use.

I hear that the purpose is to ward off curses, but...

The other houses too have frogs, or pheasants or such... some have even enshrined deer heads.

I've only heard rumors, so I'm a bit hazy on the truth of the matter.

Apparently the money-changer didn't put one in front of his shop, he enshrined it in his bedroom.

Well, escaping the gods comes first, right?