Once upon a time there was an elderly couple who had no children. They wished fervently for a child. One day the old woman was washing laundry in the river when a giant peach came floating downstream. She called her husband and together they brought it back to their home. When they went to cut it, the peach split open down the middle and inside was a baby girl. She had black hair with a shock of pink. So the old couple named her "Momoko" and raised her as their own.