Japanese Fairy Tales

11 hrs. 14 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Narrator Oleg Isaev

Description

Funny and sad, sly and instructive, magical and everyday—Japanese fairy tales are the soul and conscience of the people, a source of inspiration and a measure of their cultural achievements. In this collection, you’ll find the best folk fairy tales of Japan. In Japan, they are known to everyone—without these tales, there’s no imagining childhood for any child. Their morals have shaped more than one generation of Japanese people, and many of them have rightly entered the world’s treasury of fairy tales.

Contents:

01. Japanese fairy tales
02. The Golden Mountain
03. The Sparrow without a Tongue
04. The Monkey Kingdom
05. Gombé—the bird-catcher
06. Brother and sister
07. A wizard by force
08. Three bundles of straw
09. Strawberries under snow
10. Bamboo up to the very sky
11. The unfortunate busybody
12. The flutist Santa
13. Mouse sumo
14. Old men aren’t lacking in wisdom
15. Three strongmen
16. Yamori
17. Ashkeeper
18. The Isle of Cannibals
19. Momotaro
20. The Land of Fools
21. Rokuro-Kubi
22. The Firebird Taro
23. The Carpenter and the demon Oniroku
24. The Fool Yotaru
25. The Raccoon-Werewolf
26. The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
27. The Ghost Ship
28. Issumboshi
29. The Jellyfish and the Monkey
30. Two old men and demons
31. The Dragon’s servant
32. The Mirror
33. The magic obі
34. The fisherman Urashima