Japanese folktales
Subtitle: classic stories from Japan's enchanted past
By: compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki; foreword by Lucy Fraser
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9784805314616
Subjects: Tales; Fairy tales; Legends
Description: Twenty-two Japanese legends and fairy tales about peasants and kings, good and bad forces, princesses, animals, the sea, and the sky.
Notes: First Tutlle Edition, 1970.
Table of contents: title: My lord bag of rice; title: The tongue-cut sparrow; title: The story of Urashima Taro, the fisher lad; title: The farmer and the badger; title: The shinansha, or the south pointing carriage; title: The adventures of Kintaro, the golden boy; title: The story of princess Hase; title: The story of the man who did not wish to die; title: The bamboo-cutter and the moon-child; title: The mirror of Matsuyama; title: The goblin of Adachigahara; title: The sagacious monkey and the boar; title: The happy hunter and the skillful fisher; title: The story of the old man who made withered trees to flower; title: The jelly fish and the monkey; title: The quarrel of the monkey and the crab; title: The white hare and the crocodiles; title: The story of Prince Yamato Take; title: Momotaro, or the story of the son of a peach; title: The ogre of Rashomon; title: How an old man lost his wen; title: The stones of five colours and the Empress Jokwa.