Japanese Folk Tales

A collection of Japanese tales, narratives about various wonders, both kind and terrifying, funny and sad, cunning and didactic, always striking with their originality and emotional depth. In it, the reader, both big and small, will meet mischievous forest spirits... - tengu and water creatures kappa, beautiful bird maidens and snake women, treacherous shapeshifters like foxes and badgers, the cheerful jokester Hikoiti. Fascinating legends of old, which have become part of the world treasury of fairy tales, have been gathered and translated by the renowned translator and philologist-specialist in Japanese literature V.N. Markova.