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…
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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…