Japanese Fairy Tales of Yei Theodora Ozaki
By Yei Theodora Ozaki
- Release Date: 2016-05-06
- Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables for Young Adults
Description
An early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular.
Contents
Japanese Fairy Tales
Romances of Old Japan
Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories
Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908)
These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.
