Japanese Folk Tales

A collection of Japanese tales, narratives about various wonders, both good and scary, funny and sad, cunning and didactic, and always striking with their originality and emotional depth. In it, the reader, both big and small, will get acquainted with the mischievous forest spirits - tengu and the water creatures kappa, beautiful bird maidens and snake women, treacherous werefoxes and badgers, the cheerful joker Hikoiti. Fascinating legends of old, which have entered the world treasury of tales, are collected and translated by the renowned translator and philologist-japanologist V.N. Markova.