LoginJapanese Tales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
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These legends and popular tales—220 in all—ranging from one to three pages open windows upon tradition and reality in medieval Japan. These vigorously and colloquially translated tales recall worlds conjured by Chaucer, Boccaccio, Perrault, and Grimm; East and West meet in common pursuit of ways to endure social and natural adversity. The social adversaries are often robbers, miscreant monks, or retired emperors but above all women, especially when disguised as foxes. The natural adversaries are ghosts and demons, snakes and dragons. One survives them all by wit and faith and a dollop of good luck. The Japanese tale shares w
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Manufacturer: Random House
Release date: 31 August 2002
ISBN-10 : 0375714510 |
Release date: 31 August 2002
ISBN-10 : 0375714510 |
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