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Japanese Fairy World
William Elliot Griffis
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By-and-by the ape came to visit the crab, and seeing the fine tree laden with the yellow-brown fruit, begged a few. The crab,[Pg 51] asking pardon of the ape, said he could not climb the tree to offer him any, but agreed to give the ape half, if he would mount the tree and pluck them.
So the monkey ran up the tree, while the crab waited below, expecting to eat the ripe fruit. But the monkey sitting on a limb first filled his pockets full, and then picking off all the best ones, greedily ate the pulp, and threw the skin and stones in the crab's face. Every once in a while, he would pull off a green sour persimmon and hit the crab hard, until his shell was nearly cracked. At last the crab thought he would get the best of the ape. So when his enemy had eaten his fill until he was bulged out, he cried out,
"Now Mister Ape, I dare you to come down head-. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Beautiful tales that give insight to the folklore, and beliefs, behind the culture. The tales have life lessons, or give an understanding of the gods, demons, and the basic nature of people themselves.
I picked up this book for research and found myself falling into the stories - reading them for the fun of it. Japan has such an amazing mythos.
It’s like blurbs of larger epics, some short stories and random characters backstories put together. Don’t expect jataka tales like moral and ending to every story. This just fit the prompt of anonymous author . As the stories themselves were written or created by some one long ago . The compiles an
Nice, but not very interesting
Not a very engaging collection. Some stories are interesting, but for the most part the style comes off as fragmented and a bit messy. I also don't understand the order in which stories are presented. However the introductions to some are very nice, giving a bit of bac
Audiobook review: It's really interesting that there are so many similarities between these fairy stories and europen goid night stories...somehow these stories have same elements, not only in messages they send but also in caracters and sometimes even the whole stories match western civilisation tr
Really nice collection of fairytales, although the curator's rather naive insistence of excluding anything bloody or violent or disturbing from this collected lore definitely left little room for maneuver (considering how Japanese lore tends to be).
But the result has a surprising dream-like quality
Great read!!!!
I have wanting to know where some of today's best anime started. The stories in this book are a wonderful.source.
Fine collection of fairy tales and mythology, very entertaining.