Japanese Fairy Tales of Yei Theodora Ozaki

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.