Japanese folk stories and fairy tales
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Chapters (56)
- JAPANESE FOLK STORIES AND FAIRY TALES
- CONTENTS
- THE CHOICE OF THE PRINCESS
- THE MIRROR OF THE SUN GODDESS
- Footnotes
- THE SWORDED FALCON
- THE PHANTOM CATS
- Footnotes
- THE SWORD OF THE CLUSTERING CLOUDS OF HEAVEN
- Footnotes
- THE BOASTFUL BAMBOO
- Footnotes
- THE ANGEL’S ROBE
- Footnotes
- THE MOON AND THE CUCKOO
- Footnotes
- THE HANG-THE-MONEY-UP TREE
- THE GODDESS OF GREEN-GROWING THINGS
- THE KNIGHTLY WASTE-PAPER MAN
- I
- II
- Footnotes
- THE HUNTER AND THE PRIEST
- Footnotes
- THE PRINCESS MOONBEAM
- THE SINGLE LANTERN OF YAMATO
- THE SOUL OF THE SAMURAI
- Footnotes
- THE DREAM OF THE GOLDEN BOX
- THE PRINCESS OF THE SEA
- THE FIREFLY OF MATSUI
- Footnotes
- THE MOUNTAIN ROSE
- Footnotes
- THE EVIL ONE AND THE RAT
- THE PAINTER OF CATS
- Footnotes
- THE COMING OF BENTEN SAMA
- Footnotes
- THE WATERFALL WHICH FLOWED SAKÉ
- Footnotes
- THE BOY AND THE SPIRITS OF THINGS
- THE DAUGHTER OF A SAMURAI
- THE FISHES OF THE BOILING SPRING
- THE INAO OF THE AINU
- Footnotes
- THE GOBLIN TREE
- THE MAN WHO BECAME A SERPENT
- Footnotes
- THE LAUGHING DUMPLING
- Footnotes
- THE SACRIFICE TO KOMPIRA
- Footnotes
- THE TWO BROTHERS
- THE PRINCESS AND THE FOX BABY
- Footnotes
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