Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara Toda, or My Lord Bag of Rice. One day he sallied forth in search of adventures, for he had the nature of a warrior and could not bear to be idle. So he buckled on his two swo...
The author's second collection of Japanese folklore. Included are stories from such classics as the Heike Monogatari....
Buddha's Crystal and Other Stories is the second book written by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Originally published in 1908, these tales have been translated and adapted to a western audience while keeping their original charm. Including some such great storie...
The original classic collection where a biracial Japanese woman made her adopted homeland’s fairy tales her own. Yei Theodora Ozaki had a 19th century British upbringing, but embraced her Eastern heritage once she moved to Japan at sixteen. Re...
The Man Who Did Not Wish To Die and The Happy Hunter are short stories by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871 â€" December 28, 1932) was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly...
Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871 â€" 1932) was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death. Over the years, she trave...
Yei Theodora Ozaki wanted to put an end to the notion of the Japanese woman as an oppressed, passive geisha-like Madame Butterfly figure. She said, “When I was last in England and Europe, very mistaken notions about Japan and especially about its w...
Yei Theodora Ozaki wanted to put an end to the notion of the Japanese woman as an oppressed, passive geisha-like Madame Butterfly figure. She said, “When I was last in England and Europe, very mistaken notions about Japan and especially about its w...
His old widowed mother would not die happy unless he were rehabilitated, and to this end he knew that she and his faithful wife, O Yumi, prayed daily before the family shrine. How often had he racked his brains to find some way by which it were possi...
Be transported to a realm of magical kingdoms, mysterious beings and mythical lands. Japanese Folktales is the most complete collection of Japanese stories in English. It introduces readers to the enchanting world of ghouls, goblins, ogres, s...