Japanese Fairy Tales
By Yei Theodora Ozaki
Cover: Landscape at Kusatsu (1831), woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1858)
Yei Theodora Ozaki's 1908 retellings of Japanese tales, including Momotaro the peach boy and the tongue-cut sparrow. Demons, foxes and kind old couples fill the stories. A classic introduction to the folklore of Japan.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: My Lord Bag of Rice
- 2: The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
- 3: The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad
- 4: The Farmer and the Badger
- 5: The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy
- 6: The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die
- 7: The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child
- 8: The Goblin of Adachigahara
- 9: The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar
- 10: The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher
- 11: The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower
- 12: The Jelly Fish and the Monkey
- 13: The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab
- 14: The White Hare and the Crocodiles
- 15: The Story of Prince Yamato Take
- 16: Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach
- 17: The Ogre of Rashomon
- 18: How an Old Man Lost His Wen