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Japanese Folktales

Classic Stories from Japan's Enchanted Past

Mitwirkender: Ozaki, Yei Theodora

Beschreibung

Japanese Folktales is Yei Theodora Ozaki's classic collection of twenty-two traditional Japanese stories. The book introduces the reader to the rich world of the Japanese imagination, a world of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals and magic birds; demons and dragons, princes and princesses.

Autor

Yei Theodora Ozaki was the daughter of a Japanese father and an English mother. After her parents' marriage ended, Ozaki began a life of world travel, first raised by her mother in England and then her father in Japan. Later she traveled through Europe, where she began to translate the traditional Japanese stories she loved into English. She went on to translate several collections of Japanese folk tales including this one. Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Queensland (AUS) where she teaches Japanese popular culture, literature and language. Her most recent publication is the book The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformation of "The Little Mermaid." Her research interests include animal-human interactions in Japanese fairy tale retellings.

Produktdetails

• Tuttle Classics
• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9784805314616
• ISBN-10: 4805314613
• Artikelnr.: 50457798