Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield by weight of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat.

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The legend of the Straw Millionaire (わらしべ長者, Warashibe Chōja), also known as Daietsu or the Daikokumai, is a Japanese Buddhist folk tale about a poor man who becomes wealthy through a series of successive trades, starting with a single piece of straw. [1]

The Piece of Straw is a folk tale from Japan, and it is about "...a poor young man who lived all alone" (Uchida 36). The young man, who is the main character, had no one to go to and was running out of money.

When a poor, kind man is promised riches, only his faith makes him keep the ordinary piece of straw he is given, but circumstances change to bring him good fortune.

Yohei, a poor man manages to build his fortunes from a single piece of straw. Junko Morimoto (1932–) graduated from Kyoto University of Fine Art and worked as an art teacher at an Osaka …

“The Piece of Straw” is a Japanese Folktale about a poor man that lives in Yamato, Japan. He has no family or friends to support. him. As the days went by his purse got skinnier and skinnier. Soon he would be out of money and starve, so he went to the. temple and prayed for a dream that would provide for him.

What is a piece of straw? A single stalk of threshed grain. 2. Pieces or a piece of natural or artificial strawlike material. 3. Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw. What is a straw in American?

Yohei was a kind but poor man who went every day to pray at the shrine. On the hundredth day the wind blew and told Yohei to take heed of that which first came to mind. As he left the shrine Yohei fell down. As he was getting up he noticed that he was holding a piece of straw. He tied a horsefly to the end and continued on his way.