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 the West’s first commercial introduction to the storytelling tradition...
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 ...
