Enjoying Japanese Tale

December 19, 2004 9:24 AM

Japanese fairy tales. In English, illustrated.
posted by Wolfdog (7 comments total)

[this is great, at least if you love Japan]

Thanks, Wolfdog! Nice find, this is being posted to my bookmarks as we speak.
posted by cyrusdogstar at 10:11 AM on December 19, 2004

Lovely! Thanks.
posted by homunculus at 11:32 AM on December 19, 2004

thanks! i've bookmarked it too.
posted by amberglow at 11:45 AM on December 19, 2004

Very nice. I'd also like to point out that by clicking the book images at the top of each story you can view the book cover, and inner pages, with much bigger images of the illustrations that accompany the stories. Here's one example (use the arrows to advance forward, click images to enlarge).

Actually, I've been clicking around on all sorts of stuff, and just spent the last hour treasure hunting on this interesting page, for example. Sort of like a blind treasure hunt!
posted by taz at 12:49 PM on December 19, 2004

What delightful stuff! "Long, long ago, at the bottom of Kamewari Hill in Kaga Province, there lived an owl. He was 83 years old. One day, by chance, Owl fell in love..." (A sad story, that one.) Thanks, Wolfdog!
posted by languagehat at 12:49 PM on December 19, 2004

Very neat. Poor Owl. "...[Owl] wept so miserably that no one could bear to look at him." Interesting stories and illustrations. Thanks for the link, Wolfdog. And thank you, taz, for the other interesting page. I love these fantastic bug warriors and these cephalopod soldiers.
posted by lobakgo at 2:39 PM on December 19, 2004

hama7, your Japan fetish flat out gives us the creeps...oh, wait.
posted by cosmonik at 3:12 PM on December 19, 2004