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Japanese folk tales give glance of a morals, values, and lifestyle of Japan. The Japanese Fairy Book initial seemed in 1903. It is a sundry collection of normal Japanese stories, retold for, “young readers of a West,” comprising legends of aged Japanese heroes and heroines, animal fables, abnormal stories, folk tales and stories with eremite meaning. They operation from a really informed (in Japan), such as, “Momotaro, or a Story of a Son of a Peach,” to a reduction well-known, “The Stones of Five Colours and a Empress Jokwa.” We are told that, “Ozaki unabashedly re-crafted some of a stories, translating loosely and adding in elements of separate tales, in sequence to make them some-more beguiling and distinct for Western children,” and a author admits as most herself: “These stories are not verbatim translations, and yet a Japanese story and all old-fashioned Japanese expressions have been steadily preserved, they have been told some-more with a perspective to seductiveness immature readers of a West than a technical tyro of folk-lore.” So this is apart from being a erudite collection; rather a artistic work created from a adore of Japan and a birthright of story, directed during fervent immature minds, for whom Japan was a distant, visitor and presumably different culture.
This excite book comprises of 22 stories with a new pleasing illustrated applicable to any tales. The storeis are as followings in that they have a TOC linkage for easy navigation.
MY LORD BAG OF RICE
THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW
THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD
THE FARMER AND THE BADGER
THE "shinansha," OR THE SOUTH POINTING CARRIAGE
THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY
THE STORY OF PRINCESS HASE
THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE
THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD
THE MIRROR OF MATSUYAMA
THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA
THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR
THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER
THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO FLOWER
THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY
THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB
THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES
THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE
MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH
THE OGRE OF RASHOMON
HOW AN OLD MAN LOST HIS WEN
THE STONES OF FIVE COLORS AND THE EMPRESS JOKWA
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- Published on: 2012-03-06
- Released on: 2012-03-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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First tagged "japanese" by Bestzaa
Full Specification tags: japanese history, japanese fiction, japanese culture, heroes, fairy tales, japanese literature, japanese language, fairy tale retellings, japanese, japan, folklore and mythology, folk tales
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