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Treasury of Japanese Folktales: Bilingual English and Japanese Edition

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Learn Japanese and enjoy folktales on the same time with this whimsically illustrated multicultural children’s book!

This bilingual edition of A Treasury of Japanese Folktales—presented in both English and Japanese—incorporates 12 of the most productive Japanese legends and fairy tales, told to generation after generation of Japanese children. In the beginning written in English by Yuri Yasuda, in response to her interpretations of traditional Japanese tales, these charming stories of wealthy imagination are now accompanied by Japanese text by Yumi Matsunari and Yumi Yamaguchi. The Japanese text includes basic kanji accompanied by furigana to assist beginning learners to recognize and learn the characters.

Adventures carry us, on turtle-back, to the splendors of the underwater palace of the dragon princess, to the beautiful hills where Kintaro plays with his animal friends, and to a temple where we discover a “tea kettle” that may be truly a cunning badger in disguise.

The 98 color illustrations bring to life the charming characters of these heart-warming tales of old Japan, which come with:

  • Shitakiri Suzume, the Tongue-Cut Sparrow
  • Kintaro, the Strong Boy
  • Kaguya Hime, the Luminous Princess
  • Momotaro, the Peach Boy
  • Bunbuku Chagama, the Lucky Cauldron
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