Comments on: Enjoying Japanese Tale

Enjoying Japanese Tale

Wolfdog — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:24:45 -0800

Japanese fairy tales. In English, illustrated.

By: cyrusdogstar

cyrusdogstar — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:11:37 -0800

[this is great, at least if you love Japan] Thanks, Wolfdog! Nice find, this is being posted to my bookmarks as we speak.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:32:19 -0800

Lovely! Thanks.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:45:18 -0800

thanks! i've bookmarked it too.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:49:34 -0800

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!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:49:39 -0800

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!

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:39:15 -0800

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.

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:12:17 -0800

hama7, your Japan fetish flat out gives us the creeps...oh, wait.