Woman-Spider and Other Stories

Folk tales, myths, and legends were passed down in Japan from mouth to mouth. Constantly transforming, renewing, and adapting to the inevitable passage of time, these stories – frightening, funny, sad, cunning, and instructive – hold invaluable wisdom of the ancestors.
The tales included in this edition are less known than the "Tales of Ancient Japan," collected by Sazanami Sanzin, and the stories from the collection "Ten Evenings," but are no less fascinating. They allow for an even deeper immersion into the diversity of genres of Japanese folklore. Make yourself comfortable and get ready to hear about the tricks of cunning foxes, the songs of cats, the confrontation between a tiger and a snail, the malice of the woman-spider, the dying poem of the Red Octopus, the cycle of the wheel of karma, and much, much more.