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Myths and Legends of Japan

10 best books like Myths and Legends of Japan (F. Hadland Davis): The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Japanese Tales, Myths and Legends of China, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day, Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai, The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends, The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology

The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
AuthorŌ no Yasumaro
ISBN0804836752
Translation is a tough work, and the challenge is compounded when the original is written in archaic language because the meaning of words change over time.

I've been wondering why the Japanese gods Izanagi and Izanami have been accused of incest. It's because of the word 妹. In modern Japanese,...
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
AuthorMoss Roberts
Quite a treasury. I liked the numerous short fables even better than the stories. And the introduction, that gives just a bit of historical context, esp. re the rivalry between the Confucians and the Taoists, is helpful.

My favorite is one of the very shortest:

"The Missing Axe

"A...
Japanese Tales
AuthorRoyall Tyler
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these...
Myths and Legends of China
AuthorE.T.C. Werner
Edit: Jan.25

I've decided to change my original rating of 2 stars to 1.

I tried to read this again after downloading another free ebook of Chinese myths from the iBook store called The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Shan Hai Jing. The earliest accounts of some of the stories found in TCoMaS...
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
AuthorHoward Norman
ISBN0375702679
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
AuthorDonald Keene
ISBN0802150950
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers,...
Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
AuthorAlgernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
ISBN0486440621
The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attaché with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) — one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay...
The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
AuthorLafcadio Hearn
ISBN0486403483
A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese fairy tales.
Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai...
Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends
AuthorLewis Spence
ISBN0486265250
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." — from Chapter One.
In...
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
AuthorFaubion Bowers
ISBN0486292746
Haiku should be just
small stones dropping down a well
with a small splash
- James Kirkup (8)
Haiku or the complexity of subtlety
As a big fan of etymology, I was captivated by this book's introduction. It is a clear and detailed recount of the history of haiku. The present enthralling...
Read Japanese Today
AuthorLen Welsh
ISBN0804804966
Japanese characters, called kanji, often intimidate potential students of the language with their complex and mysterious appearance. Read Japanese Today is a comprehensible and storylike approach to an often difficult language. Intended for people on the go, this book will teach you to recognize...
Legends of the Samurai
AuthorHiroaki Sato
ISBN0879516194
Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun. In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling...
A History of Japan, 1334-1615
AuthorGeorge Bailey Sansom
ISBN0804705259
This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History. While complete in itself, it is also the first volume of a three-volume work which will be the first large-scale, comprehensive history of Japan.

Taken...
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland
AuthorJane Francesca Wilde
ISBN1428644520

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural
AuthorStephen Addiss
ISBN0807611263
I read simultaneously two books about Japanese spirits and the art that has been made to accompany the stories of these beings.

"Japanese Ghosts and Demons", published 30 years ago, is more scholarly and lacks the clean modern look of "Ghosts and Spirits". But I found that the detailed information...
Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
AuthorHiroko Yoda
Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional monsters and creepy-crawlies.

Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, like ghosts, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics...
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
AuthorMichael Dylan Foster
ISBN0520253620
Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines,...
Japan: Its History and Culture
AuthorW. Scott Morton
ISBN0071412808
This is a revision of the long successful, short, illustrated cultural history of Japan, from its beginnings about 3000 BC to the present day, first published in 1970 and continuously in use over several editions in colleges and universities nationwide. It is designed as a straightforward, detail-rich...
Japanese Inn
AuthorOliver Statler
ISBN0824808185
The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travelers and guests flow into and past the inn--warriors on the march, lovers fleeing to a new life, pilgrims on their merry expeditions, great men going to...
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 07
AuthorHiroshi Shiibashi
ISBN1421538970
While the day belongs to humans, the night belongs to yokai,supernatural creatures that thrive on human fear. Caught between these worlds is Rikuo Nura. He's three-quarters human, but his grandfather is none other than Nurarihyon, the supreme commander of the Nura clan, a powerful yokai consortium....
Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics
AuthorMichael Rowley
ISBN0962813702
Japanese written characters, or kanji, have their origin in a picture-language developed in ancient China. Over time this language evolved into stylized abstract forms that are hard to memorize. In Kanji Pict-o-Graphix, Michael Rowley offers a whole new set of contemporary visual and textual memory...
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