海水(かいすい)の塩(しお)で皮膚(ひふ)がヒビ割れて(ひびわれて)痛みが(いたみが)ひどくなった

In front of the hare weeping in pain with no skin, the mean brother gods of Okuninushi passed by. They taught him a lie: 'It will heal if you bathe in seawater and stay on a high hill where the wind blows.' The believing hare did so, and as the salt dried, his skin cracked, plunging him into even greater pain.