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A review by jingo_mort
Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
4.0
90/100 (2018 Reading Challenge)
It’s not the best translated (okay I don’t have the original Japanese texts, but in the sense of how it reads) or formatted in the sense of it’s kindle edition but it was free. I do have a fondness for fairy stories/fables too as they can be an interesting piece of cultural literary history. They can often be quite harsh too, which often amuses me. I like getting to read ones like this from Japan that are different to the ones I grew up with too & get to hear the ones I would have heard if I was growing up as a kid in Japan. Though it’s hardly a can’t put down read did keep coming back & reading one every so often. Though they are the kind of tales which call out for a lovely illustrated edition.
It’s not the best translated (okay I don’t have the original Japanese texts, but in the sense of how it reads) or formatted in the sense of it’s kindle edition but it was free. I do have a fondness for fairy stories/fables too as they can be an interesting piece of cultural literary history. They can often be quite harsh too, which often amuses me. I like getting to read ones like this from Japan that are different to the ones I grew up with too & get to hear the ones I would have heard if I was growing up as a kid in Japan. Though it’s hardly a can’t put down read did keep coming back & reading one every so often. Though they are the kind of tales which call out for a lovely illustrated edition.