Japanese Fairy Tales

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 of Japan, these tales are as brilliantly entertaining - and important - now as they were at the beginning of the last century, and are presented here in a handsome new edition for a new generation.