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. mukashibanashi 昔話 folktales .
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Whereas folktales (mukashibanashi 昔話) are usually pure phantasy and happen "once upon a time",
many legends (densetsu) have a bit of truth, explaining about a place name, a historical person, a local speciality or something of that kind. Legends with a similar theme but varying contents can be found in different regions of Japan.
For unification purposes, I call most of them "tales".
Since 2015 I am working on this project.
Gabi Greve, Japan
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- Tales and Legends - - ABC-Lists of the Darumapedia -
. animals and their legends 動物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. plants and their legends 植物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. trees and their legends 樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .
. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - ABC list .
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. Hikoichi don from Kumamoto 熊本の彦一 .
. Kintaro 金太郎 "The Golden Boy" Kintoki 金時 .
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Japanese Tales - Royall Tyler
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons.
Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese worldview during a classic period in Japanese civilization.
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Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford アルジャーノン・フリーマン＝ミットフォード
1st Baron Redesdale, (1837 – 1916)
. Tales of Old Japan (1871) .
List of the tales
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Manga Nihon Mukashibanashi まんが日本昔ばなし
Folktales and Legends
This is a popular TV series and also available as books now.
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kitsune fox
nezumi - rat, mouse
oni 鬼 demons
tabemono food
tanuki - Tanuki, the badger
uma horse
and many more topics and all the provinces
- source : nipponmukasibanasi - article
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yokai database 妖怪データベース about all regions and all monsters
- source : www.nichibun.ac.jp -
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日本の文化を英語で伝えたい . . . legends in Japanese and English
(seven pages with titles)
- source : japanese-culture.info
Konjiki Yasha
- source : www.soulportals.com
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Once Upon a Time in Japan
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) (Author),
Roger Pulvers (Translator), Juliet Carpenter (Translator)
- - - - - The fairytales and classic stories in this collection include:
The Wife Who Never Eats —the story of a man who learns the hard way the evils of stinginess.
The Mill of the Sea —the story of how a greedy man was responsible for the saltiness of sea water.
The Monkey and the Crab —the crabs teach a tricky monkey a lesson in fairness and honesty.
The Magical Hood —an act of kindness reaps great rewards.
Sleepyhead Taro and the Children —a story about what can be accomplished at the right time, and with the right help and the right spirit.
The Fox and the Otter —how a fox pays the price of deceit and selfishness.
The Gratitude of the Crane —a story about the rewards of kindness and the danger of curiosity.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter —a girl who starts life very tiny turns out to be big in many ways.
. Roger Pulvers .
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Mukashibanashi: - the Japanese folktale
Mukashibanashi 昔話 ("tales of long ago")
is the Japanese word for folk tale. Another term, otogi-banashi お伽話, refers to night meetings held by groups of worshippers, or to stories told to feudal lords in the evening. These tales are among the simplest types of folk narratives, and are transmitted orally from generation to generation. A very few of them seem to be based on myths found in texts such as the Kojiki or the Konjaku monogatari, though it is entirely possible that it is the other way around. They often include certain elements (which are discussed in the overview) and themes, such as mischievous animals, extraordinary brides and their suspicious husbands, strange occurances, the good old man and the bad old man, and sudden reversals of fortune, to name a few.
There are hundreds of folktale types, which have been catalogued by the early folklorist Yanagita Kunio, and later by his protege Keigo Seki. The latter has prepared a paper on these types for translation into English, which was printed in the Asian Folklore Studies journal in 1966 and can be found here.
Long ago, in a certain place...
The Frog Wife
The Fox Wife
What the Yama-chichi Observed
- - Yama-chichi kills man in sleep
Komebukuro and Awabukuro
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
Uguisu-hime, or Kaguya-hime
Uriko-hime
Urashima Tarō
Momotarō, the Peach Boy
The Crane Wife
The Monkey and the Crab
The Cuckoo and the Shrike
The Mujina, the Monkey and the Otter
The Wife Who Didn't Eat
The Mountain Pears
The Three Charms
Kogorō, the Charcoal Maker
The Water Spider
The Monkeys' Jizō
The Two Tumors
The Sound of Chewing Acorns
The Wolf's Eyebrows
Kachi-kachi-yama
Bunbuku Chagama
The Monkey's Liver
Tawara Toda, "Lord Bag of Rice"
The Spider and the Old Man
Shippei Tarō
Tokutarō Tricked by Foxes
The Gratitude of the Samebito
The Boy Who Drew Cats
Yuki-onna, the Snow Woman
The Golden Axe and the Silver Axe
The Monkey Bridegroom
The Quiver of the Mountain Deity
Little Runny-nose Boy
From a Meadow Lane in Spring
The Fox's Laugh
The Listening Hood
Apart from these mukashibanashi the link also features links to
Densetsu
Kaidan
Kotowaza
Densetsu: travels and legends
When we speak of folkloric stories in the West, the terms "legend", "folk tale"and "fairy tale" get tossed around quite a bit. What exactly is the difference, one might well ask. A legend is a story that, unlike fairy tales, are told as truth; that is, according to the person telling the story, it actually happened. Whether or not a story happened historically is irrelevant.
- The Nue
The Writing of Kōbō Daishi
Tamamo no Mae, the Jewel Maiden
Kahei the Hunter
The Chōja's Daughter
The Stone Grain Mill
The Wolves
The Birds of Tōno
The Kappa
The Yaro-ka Flood, and Goshinrō Pond
Crab Pool and Princess Yasunaga
Kaidan: in the ghostly realm
Of Yōkai and Bakemono
Hyakki Yakō, The Night Parade of One Hundred Monsters
Strange Sounds and Strange Fireballs
Foxes and Badgers
Yuki-onna, the Snow Woman
Mimi Nashi Hoichi
The Ghost of Okiku
The Ghost of Oiwa
The Violet Well
The Bell of Dōjōji
Botan Dorō, the Peony Lantern
Of the Biwa Called Genjo
- source with hyperlinks : intracoastal-wanderings.com
And one more link to various monsters, yokai and legends
FRONTIERS OF ZOOLOGY - Dale A. Drinnon
- source : rrontiersofzoology.blogspot.jp
Sarudama Japanese Folklore - by Scott Foutz
http://www.sarudama.com/japanese_folklore/
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- source : www.japanesemythology.jp
百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
Translated Japanese Ghost Stories and Tales of the Weird and the Strange
Zack Davisson
- source : hyakumonogatari.com
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