Yoshio Toyoshima: 10 works in the original Japanese, with translation

The forest spirit's cry "お時間じゃ" reminds the prince to return to the palace. In Japanese, "じゃ" is an old-fashioned sentence-ending particle, often used to convey the archaic speech style of spirits, elderly people, and the like.

Hachiman is a deity widely worshipped in Japan. Originally a god of war and the ancestor of the bow and arrow, he is enshrined in the guardian shrines of villages throughout the country. A small shrine outside the village together with its grove is a typical feature of the traditional Japanese countryside.

A transporter or horse driver who used horses to carry goods or people. In the Meiji and Taishō periods, in areas where railways had not yet spread, goods in mountain regions were mostly transported by bato leading pack horses or horse-drawn carts back and forth between the mountain areas and the towns.

A storehouse (kura, with white plaster walls) could only be built by wealthy farming families or prominent households that had stockpiled large amounts of grain and property, so having one was a mark of wealth or poverty. The fact that the monkey goes first to a house with a storehouse is connected to this.