The honest old man was disheartened. He gathered up the ashes from the mortar, put them in a box, and carried the box carefully back to his house."Let's sprinkle these ashes over the field and grow the radish that Shiro loved so much." When the old man sprinkled the ashes, a wind swirled up and blew the ashes into a dead tree. Amazingly, the dead tree began to bloom beautiful cherry blossoms.