Table of Contents
Foreword 9
Preface 15
List of Illustrations 17
My Lord Bag of Rice 21
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow 29
The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad 40
The Farmer and the Badger 54
The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage 62
The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy 67
The Story of Princess Hase 78
The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die 89
The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child 98
The Mirror of Matsuyama 116
The Goblin of Adachigahara 132
The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar 138
The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher 142
The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower 161
The Jelly Fish and the Monkey 170
The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab 181
The White Hare and the Crocodiles 190
The Story of Prince Yamato Take 198
Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach 214
The Ogre of Rashomon 228
How An Old Man Lost His Wen 236
The Stones of Five Colors and the Empress Jokwa 243