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Japanese Fairy Tales

by Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)

My Lord Bag of Rice

First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)

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Listen next episodes of Japanese Fairy Tales:
How an Old Man Lost his Wen , Momotaro, or The Story of the Son of a Peach , The Adventures of Kintaro, The Golden Boy , The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child , The Farmer and the Badger , The Goblin of Adachigahara , The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher , The Jelly Fish and the Monkey , The Mirror of Maysuyama , The Ogre of Rashomon , The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab , The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar , The "Shinansha," or The South Pointing Carriage , The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa , The Story of Prince Yamato Take , The Story of Princess Hase , The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die , The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower , The Story of Urashima Taro, The Fisher Lad , The Tongue-Cut Sparrow , The White Hare and the Crocodiles