[null, {"document_url": "https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6088141075", "unformatted_src": "https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9781462909636_180.jpeg", "src": "https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9781462909636_180.jpeg", "formatted_filename": "csp", "alt_text": "Folk Legends of Japan"}, null, {"document_url": "https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6088141075", "unformatted_src": "//cor-cdn-static.bibliocommons.com/assets/circ-skeleton-a3b9bb2ed99459a14936fa064905741f.png", "src": "http://cor-cdn-static.bibliocommons.com/assets/circ-skeleton-a3b9bb2ed99459a14936fa064905741f.png", "formatted_filename": "circ skeleton a b bb ed a fa f"}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null]
Folk Legends of Japan

Dorson, Richard M., 1916-1981
 Delightfully illustrated, this collection of Japanese myths and fairy tales presents readers with a rich folk tradition. Folk Legends of Japan 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. 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. Anyone who loves a genuine old wives' tales, who savors fire-lit 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 folk basis for many of the beliefs and customs that may have puzzled him in the past.
Publisher: [United States] : Tuttle Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2012
ISBN: 9781462909636 Find it at BPL