Japanese Folk Tales : Tuttle Classics

Classic Stories from Japan's Enchanted Past

By: Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lucy Fraser (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 September 2018

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256 Pages

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Japanese Folktales is Yei Theodora Ozaki’s classic collection of twenty-two traditional Japanese stories. The book introduces the reader to the rich world of the Japanese imagination, a world of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals and magic birds; demons and dragons, princes and princesses.

In “My Lord Bag of Rice” goldfish dancers and carp musicians delight the brave warrior Hidesato; in “The Mirror of Matsuyama” a lonely daughter endures her fate with the help of a “shining disc” given by her departed mother; “The Jelly Fish and the Monkey” explains how that sea creature lost its bones; and the hero of “Momotaro,” a tale familiar to every child in Japan, is born from a peach that washes up on the riverbank. Settings and characters vary from tale to tale but the effect of each story in this volume is the same — to transport the reader, young or old, to mysterious shores, magical kingdoms, and mythical lands.

Japanese Folk Tales is a wondrous introduction to Japan’s rich fantasy tradition.

Industry Reviews

"Drawn from many Japanese sources and enhanced with dozens of woodcut-style drawings by Tokyo artist Kakuz Fujiyama, the stories succeed in meeting Ozaki's intention "to interest young readers of the West." Most intriguing is Fraser's encouragement of a more critical reading, with an eye toward imperialist expansion, indigenous conflict, and gender inequity, issues as prevalent today as in centuries past." -Booklist

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