One fine spring day two friends went out to a moor to gather fern, attended by a boy with a bottle of wine and a box of provisions. As they were straying about, they saw at the foot of a hill two foxes that had brought out their cub to play; and whilst they looked…
Category: Japan
THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW (JAPANESE FAIRY TALES, 1908) COMPILED BY YEI THEODORA OZAKI
Long, long ago in Japan there lived an old man and his wife. The old man was a good, kind-hearted, hard-working old fellow, but his wife was a regular cross-patch, who spoiled the happiness of her home by her scolding tongue. She was always grumbling about something from morning to night. The old man had…
MY LORD BAG OF RICE (JAPANESE FAIRY TALES, 1908) COMPILED BY YEI THEODORA OZAKI
MY LORD BAG OF RICE http://ia801407.us.archive.org/16/items/jap_fairytales_0808_librivox/japanesefairytales_01_ozaki.mp3 No time to read? You can also listen to the recording from the Librivox project. Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara Toda, or “My Lord Bag of Rice.” His true name was Fujiwara Hidesato, and there is a very interesting story of…
The Two Frogs (The Violet Fairy Book, 1901) by Andrew Lang (inspired by Lukas Kührer’s bike trip from Sweden to Austria)
Today’s post is inspired by my friend and tennis club mate,Lukas, who just started his journey from Uppsala, Sweden to Vienna, Austria. What big deal is a journey from one country to another nowadays that we have trains and cars and planes? Well, Lukas is going by bike. He just started his own blog about his long…