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Yei Theodora Ozaki was an early 20th-century translator and writer renowned for her English translations of Japanese fairy tales and folk stories. Her work is celebrated for its lyrical prose…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The author’s second collection of Japanese folklore. Included are stories from such classics as the Heike Monogatari.

"Japanese Fairy Tales" by Yei Theodora Ozaki is a collection of traditional Japanese folktales and legends, retold by Yei Theodora Ozaki, a Japanese translator and author. The book was first…

Twenty-two Japanese legends and fairy tales about peasants and kings, good and bad forces, princesses, animals, the sea, and the sky written for children of the West.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern…

Tales include MY LORD BAG OF RICE, THE FARMER AND THE BADGER, THE STORY OF PRINCESS HASE, THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD, THE MIRROR OF MATSUYAMA, THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA…