Japanese Fairy Tales - Yei Theodora Ozaki

Long, long ago in Japan there lived an old man and his wife. The old man was a good, kind-hearted, hard-working old fellow …First published in 1903, Japanese Fairy Tales is a classic compendium of Japanese folklore. From the stirring opening tale of ‘My Lord Bag of Rice’, where a ferocious warrior faces a mythical beast, to moving fables of compassion like ‘The Tongue-Cut Sparrow’, the twenty-two collected stories present a glorious patchwork of Japan’s rich folkloric tradition.Representing... Zobrazit více