A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and Other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese Fairy tales.
Six additional stories -- in versions by Grace James, Basil Hall Chamberlain, and Other authorities on Japanese folklore -- include -The Tea-Kettle, - -The Wooden Bowl, - -My Lord Bag-o\'-Rice, - -The Hare of Inaba, - -The Silly Jelly-Fish, - and -The Matsuyama Mirror.-.
Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai warriors, rice fields, humble cottages, and a magical spring in five Tales excellently translated and adapted by noted writer and linguist Lafcadio Hearn: -The Fountain of Youth, - -Chin-Chin Kobakama, - -The Goblin-Spider, - -The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings, - and the title story.
A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and Other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese Fairy tales
