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Japanese Fairy Tales

Yei Theodora Ozaki

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This collection retells twenty-two traditional Japanese tales: Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who sets off with a dog, a monkey and a pheasant to defeat the ogres…

Catalogue details

Author
Yei Theodora Ozaki
Category
Psychology & Society
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

This collection retells twenty-two traditional Japanese tales: Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who sets off with a dog, a monkey and a pheasant to defeat the ogres of Ogre Island; Urashima Taro, the fisherman who visits the palace of the Dragon King under the sea and returns to find that three hundred years have passed; the tongue-cut sparrow; the old man who made withered trees blossom; the moon princess found inside a bamboo; and many others.

Context and significance

Yei Theodora Ozaki (1870–1932), born in London to a Japanese father and an English mother, first published her retellings in 1903 and reissued them in 1908 as Japanese Fairy Tales, adapting them freely for Western children. Compare Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan and Kokoro.

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