โ Chronicle Books
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ Chronicle Books LLC
๐ English
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Folk Legends of Japan
โ Scribed by Richard M. Dorson
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1462909639
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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 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...
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