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Tales of Japan. The mountain witch, the fox wife, Kaguya-hime and the boy who drew cats

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Here is a collection of selected Japanese fairy tales in a classic translation by Vera Markova, with a foreword by art historian and animation historian Anna Gold.
Exotic, thrilling, scary like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and touching like stories from childhood. Japanese fairy tales blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy and introduce us to the origins of Japanese culture.
The fox demon Kurama from "Naruto," the witch Yubaba and the bizarre creatures in Ghibli cartoons 一 many anime and manga characters have folkloric prototypes that go back centuries. Tanuki, kitsune, tengu, and tree spirits... The original source of modern plots and images 一 Japanese fairy tales 一 distinctive, poetic, magical, wise and funny.
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