Once Upon a Time in Jolly Japan

Paperback, 138 pages

Published Feb. 27, 2002 by Kodansha Europe.

ISBN:
978-4-7700-2881-5
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OCLC Number:
52484035

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Those stories sure were jolly! I kept imagining a bunch of old men drinking and telling each other crazier and crazier stories as the night went on, haha. I was glad to have parralel text for this, because it was written in a bit outdated Japanese, which I am not familiar with (e.g. おっかさん instead of お母さん and なってしもうた instead of なってしまった). Maybe it's also in dialect?

Subjects

  • Japan
  • Fairy tales, folk tales, fables, magical tales & traditional stories