Japanese fairy tales

The nurse. Warwick Goble, from Green Willow and other Japanese fairy tales, by Grace James, London, 1910. (Source: archive.org)

A collection of eighteen Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English. no.1. : Momotaro. no.2. : Tongue cut sparrow; Shitakiri suzume. no.3. :...

Satomi Naemura. Illustrations of fairy tale princess

This story is part of the Japanese Fairy Tales unit. Story source: The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1903). The Magic Kettle LIBRIVOX AUDIO: The Magic Kettle Right in the middle of Japan, high up among the mountains, an old man lived in his little house. He was very proud of it and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats and the pretty papered walls, which in warm weather always slid back so that the smell of the trees and flowers might come…

From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series of beautifully illustrated books, the majority printed on an unusual cloth-like crepe paper, the publisher Takejiro Hasegawa introduced Japanese folk tales to the West. Christopher DeCou on how a pioneering cross-cultural endeavour gave rise to a magnificent chapter in the history of children's publishing.

A collection of eighteen Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English. no.1. : Momotaro. no.2. : Tongue cut sparrow; Shitakiri suzume. no.3. :...

My first brush with raw and authentic fairy tales took place nearly thirty years when I was teaching English to Japanese children in Munich, Germany, where I lived from 1989 – 2000. In…

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Little Peachling by Georgene Faulkner, illustrated by Frederick Richardson This post is dedicated to Frederick Richardson (1862-1937), very versatile American illustrator, who worked for newspapers, magazines and book publishers, but we can't neglect another person from Chicago. Richardson worked for such big names as Andrew Lang and Frank Baum, but in my opinion we have…

A collection of eighteen Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English. no.1. : Momotaro. no.2. : Tongue cut sparrow; Shitakiri suzume. no.3. :...