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Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai

10 best books like Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai (Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford): The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, Japanese Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Eskimo Folk-Tales, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, Fairy Tales from the German Forests, Myths and Legends of Japan, Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu, Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps

The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo
AuthorKidō Okamoto
ISBN0824831004
That year, quite a shocking incident occurred. . . . So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from one of Japan's most beloved works of popular literature, Hanshichi torimonocho. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kido's best-known work inaugurated the historical detective...
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
AuthorIvan Morris
ISBN1568360290
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious, inbred, melancholy world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly thirty years. Using as a frame of reference The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan's Heian...
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...
Japanese Fairy Tales
AuthorYei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN4805308818
Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...
Eskimo Folk-Tales
AuthorKnud Rasmussen
THESE stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo...
Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
AuthorFlorence Sakade
A nice collection of Japanese fairy tales, "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" is nicely illustrated for young readers.

(And, at least in the case of the Romanian version, it's also adapted - there's a reference to Momotaro being sent by God to a childless elderly couple so he could be their...
Fairy Tales from the German Forests
AuthorMargaret Arndt
[...] He saw that it was the mouth of the tunnel, and glancing up he saw the giant fir-tree under which he had been sleeping with outstretched arms above him in the light of the moon. "Well-I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself-"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to...
Myths and Legends of Japan
AuthorF. Hadland Davis
ISBN0486270459
The most popular myths and legends of Japanese culture are charmingly retold in English in this handsomely illustrated book. Here are myths of gods, heroes and warriors; legends of Buddha, and of the goddess Benten and the god Daikoku; tales of the sea and of Mount Fuji; accounts of superstitions and...
Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
AuthorOsamu Dazai
ISBN4902075407
Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to...
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
AuthorRomulus Hillsborough
ISBN0804836272
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.

The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo,...
The Tales of Ise
AuthorAnonymous
List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Donald Keene
Introduction & Notes
Further Reading
Note on the Translation and Text

--The Tales of Ise

A Note on the Commentary
Commentary

Appendix 1: Glossary of Literary and Social Conventions
Appendix...
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...
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...
Japan
AuthorLafcadio Hearn
He took on the role of the psychologist, sociologist and anthropologist at the same time to write down this book.



Born in Greece, Lafcadio (1850-1904), the son of a Greek mother and an Irish father, had a peculiar life trajectory. From Dublin he went to America at the age of 19. He served...
The Bamboo Sword: And Other Samurai Tales
AuthorShuhei Fujisawa
ISBN4770030053
The eight stories that comprise this collection were all written in the 1970s and 80s, yet vividly evoke early 17th-century Japan, when peace finally reigned after centuries of warfare. It was a period of upheaval and change as the rulers carved out their territories and clan politics were full of intrigue,...
A History of Japan, 1615-1867
AuthorGeorge Bailey Sansom
ISBN0804705275
This is the concluding volume of a three-volume work that culminates the life study of the West's most distinguished scholar of Japanese history. A straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization to 1867, the three volumes constitute the first large-scale comprehensive...
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
AuthorIsabella Lucy Bird
ISBN1885211570
One of my favorite travel books by this intrepid Englishwoman, traveling through the "backwoods" of Japan in 1878. Though she was an invalid when at home, she rode horseback through wild country, was out in the elements during downpours that led to landslides and washed-out roads, slept on the floor,...
Samurai: The World of the Warrior
AuthorStephen Turnbull
ISBN1841769517
The world of the samurai - the legendary elite warrior cult of old Japan - has for too long been associated solely with military history and has remained a mystery to the general reader. In this exciting new book, Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield...
Japanese Fairy World - Stories From The Wonder-Lore Of Japan
AuthorWilliam Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers...
Furin Kazan
AuthorYasushi Inoue
Yamamoto Kansuke hidup pada zaman Sengoku Jidai; di mana perang saudara dan perebutan wilayah melingkupi wilayah Jepang. Kansuke dipandang sebelah mata karena kakinya yang pincang dan matanya yang buta sebelah. Hingga pada suatu ketika ia bertemu dengan jenderal Itagaki, yang memberinya kesempatan...
Japanese Culture
AuthorH. Paul Varley
ISBN0824821521
For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous...
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,...
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