Folklore, Folktales, and Fairy Tales

from Japan

a digital library assembled by

D. L. Ashliman
© 2015

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  1. Adachi, Kinnosuké. Iroka: Tales of Japan. New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1900.

  2. Aston, William George. A History of Japanese Literature. London: William Heinemann, 1908.

  3. Ayrton, M. Chaplin. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child-Stories. With many illustrations, including seven full-page pictures drawn and engraved by Japanese artists. London: Griffith and Farran, 1879.

  4. Bacon, Alice Mabel. In the Land of the Gods: Some Stories of Japan. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1905.

  5. Batchelor, John. The Ainu of Japan: The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. With 80 illustrations. London: Religious Tract Society, 1892.

  6. Batchelor, John. The Ainu and Their Folk-Lore. With 137 illustrations from photgraphs, and from sketches by the author. London: Religious Tract Society, 1901.

  7. Brauns, David August. Japanische Märchen und Sagen. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Friedrich, 1885.

  8. Chamberlain, Basil Hall. Aino Folk-Tales. With introduction by Edward B. Tylor. Privately printed for the Folk-Lore Society, 1888.

  9. Champney, Elizabeth W., and Frère Champney. Romance of Old Japan. With 96 illustrations. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917.

  10. Davis, F. Hadland. Myths and Legends of Japan. With 32 full-page illustrations by Evelyn Paul. London: George G. Harrap, 1912. (Internet Archive.)

  11. Griffis, William Elliot. Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan. Illustrated by Ozawa, of Tokio. Schenectady: James H. Barhyte, 1880.

  12. Griffis, William Elliot. Japan in History, Folk Lore, and Art. Revised and enlarged edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906.

  13. Griffis, William Elliot. The Fire-Fly's Lovers and Other Fairy Tales of Old Japan. New York: T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1908.

  14. Hearn, Lafcadio. Gleanings in Buddha-Fields. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1897.

  15. Hearn, Lafcadio. In Ghostly Japan. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899.

  16. Hearn, Lafcadio. A Japanese Miscellany. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. Copyright 1901.

  17. Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907.

  18. Hearn, Lafcadio. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907.

  19. Hearn, Lafcadio. Japanese Fairy Tales. By Lafcadio Hearn and others [Grace James and Basil Hall Chamberlain]. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918.

  20. James, Grace. Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales. With illustrations in colour by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Company, 1912. (Internet Archive.)

  21. Mackenzie, Donald A. Myths of China and Japan. With illustrations in colour and monochrome after paintings and photographs. London: Gresham Publishing Company, [1923]. (Internet Archive.)

  22. Mitford, A. B. Tales of Old Japan. In two volumes. Vol. 1. With illustrations, drawn and cut on wood by Japanese artists. London: Macmillan, 1871.

  23. Mitford, A. B. Tales of Old Japan. In two volumes. Vol. 2. With illustrations, drawn and cut on wood by Japanese artists. London: Macmillan, 1871.

  24. Mitford, A. B. Tales of Old Japan. With illustrations drawn and cut on wood by Japanese artists. London and New York: Macmillan, 1890.

  25. Nixon-Roulet, Mary F. Japanese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: American Book Company, 1908.

  26. Ozaki, Yei Theodora. The Japanese Fairy Book. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1903.

  27. Ozaki Yei Theodora. Warriors of Old Japan and Other Stories. Illustrated by Shusui Okakura and other Japanese artists. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. (Internet Archive.)

  28. Rinder, Frank. Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods. Retold by Frank Rinder, with illustrations by T. H. Robinson. London: George Allen, 1895.

  29. Smith, R. Gordon. Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan. London: A. and C. Black, 1908. (Internet Archive.)

  30. Smith, R. Gordon. Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan. London: A. and C. Black, 1908.

  31. Williston, Teresa Peirce. Japanese Fairy Tales. Retold by Teresa Peirce Williston. Illustrated by Sanchi Ogawa. Chicago, New York, and London: Rand McNally and Company, 1904.

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