Folk Legends of Japan
Richard M. Dorson
Tuttle Publishing
<p><B>Delightfully illustrated, this collection of Japanese myths and fairy tales presents readers with a rich folk tradition.</B><BR><I>Folk Legends of Japan</I> contains of over one hundred Japanese folk legends. These have been selected by a distinguished American folklorist, drawn from expert Japanese transcriptions of oral legends, and carefully translated in such a way as to bring out the charming, unadorned, and sometimes disarmingly frank folk quality of the originals.<BR>Each legend is carefully annotated for the student, scholar, and a full bibliography is provided. Fortunately, the scholarly attributes of the book are now allowed to intrude between the general reader and his enjoyment of the legends themselves.<BR>Anyone who loves a genuine old wives' tales, who savors firelit evenings of listening to the folk stories will find much pleasure in these Japanese stories. At the same time the folklorist will find a mine of information, and the Japanophile will discover the...</BR></BR></BR></p>