Japanese Folktales

Classic Stories from Japan's Enchanted Past
Mitwirkender: Ozaki, Yei Theodora

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

* Ozaki's classic collection of traditional Japanese tales is still one of the most complete collections in English. * These 22 popular stories provide an excellent introduction to Japanese folklore. * Includes the story of "Momotaro (Peach Boy)," one of the most recognizable figures in Japanese folklore. * This edition includes a new foreword by Lucy Fraser of the University of Queensland.

Produktdetails

• Tuttle Classics
• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9784805314616
• ISBN-10: 4805314613
• Artikelnr.: 50457798

Autorenporträt

Yei Theodora Ozaki was the daughter of a Japanese father and an English mother. After her parents' marriage ended, Ozaki began a life of world travel, first raised by her mother in England and then her father in Japan. Later she traveled through Europe, where she began to translate the traditional Japanese stories she loved into English. She went on to translate several collections of Japanese folk tales including this one. Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Queensland (AUS) where she teaches Japanese popular culture, literature and language. Her most recent publication is the book The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformation of "The Little Mermaid." Her research interests include animal-human interactions in Japanese fairy tale retellings.