Sign-In
Cart
Japanese Fairy Tales
Audio Book
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Voice to Remember
Published: Oct 8 2024
Language: English
Many of the stories in this book seem at the same time both familiar and strange.
Their authors valued family, duty, patience and heroism. They longed for children in their old age, and rejoiced when they saw cruelty and envy punished, wrongs righted, and kindness and bravery rewarded.
These ideas are recognized the world over.
What makes the stories different is partly the characters: the brave samurai, the evil wizards; the fantastical creatures - goblins, dragons, demons, fairies; the cunning talking animals - not only sparrows, badgers and rabbits, but crocodiles and jellyfish too.
You may feel you know what is coming when the hero is told not, under any circumstance, to open the box - or when the doting father takes a second wife, a wicked stepmother. There is even one tale where the new wife sends a servant to take the daughter into the woods and dispose of her (sound familiar?).
Though the ideas are tried and trusted, the journey is fresh and new.
Not only because the heroes ride on paper cranes or tortoises that swim under the sea - but because the destination may not be what you expect.
There is even more than one story where the wicked woman repents her evil ways and goes on to live a good and kind life.
38 different editions
Also available
Also from
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Supernatural Tales from Japan: Ghosts, Goblins, Demons and Magic
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Hearn, Lafcadio
Hardcover
Japan Tales: Classic Tales of Ghosts, Gods, and Heroes from Japan
Mountain Mill Editorial
Hearn, Lafcadio
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Paperback
Japanese Fairy Tales: Illustrated - Easy to Read Layout (Large Print Edition)
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Paperback
Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Japanese Fairy Tales, With a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Hardcover
Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Japanese Fairy Tales, With a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Paperback
Romances of old Japan [rendered Into English From Japanese Sources] by Madame Yukio Ozaki
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Hardcover
Romances of Old Japan: Rendered Into English From Japanese Sources (Cram Edition)
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
Paperback
Also in
Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
DiCamillo, Kate
Paperback
Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: Throne of Fire, The-Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two
Riordan, Rick
Hardcover
Asian Folktales for Children: Traditional Tales from Japan, Korea, China, India, the Philippines and Other Asian Lands
Romulo, Liana
Conger, David
Hardcover
Kane Chronicles, the Paperback Box Set-The Kane Chronicles Box Set with Bonus Graphic Novel Sampler
Riordan, Rick
Paperback
The Legend of Ban-Dal: A New Korean Folktale (a Modern Myth Picture Book for Kids)
Yoon, Jessica
Hardcover
Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, The-The Kane Chronicles, Book One
Riordan, Rick
Paperback
Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, The-Kane Chronicles, The, Book One
Riordan, Rick
Hardcover
It's Your Year, Baby Horse (a Cute and Sturdy Zodiac Animal Board Book for Kids Ages 0-5)
Little Bee Books
Hardcover
Little Princess Library (Disney Princess): Disney Cinderella; Disney the Little Mermaid; Disney Moana; Disney Beauty & the Beast
Random House Disney
Hardcover