Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
History and mythology, fact and fable, are closely interwoven in the texture of Japanese life and thought; indeed, it is within relatively recent years only that exact comparative criticism has been able, with some degree of accuracy, to divide the one from the other. The acco...
Far beyond the faint grey of the horizon, somewhere in the shadowy Unknown, lies the Island of Eternal Youth. The dwellers on the rocky coast of the East Sea of Japan relate tha...
4. Part 4Noon came. "My boy has met some woodcutter; he talks with him in the shade of the pine trees," she thought. As the evening drew on, she said, "He is with little Kime, his playma...
2. Part 2Again the eight hundred myriad deities assembled in the bed of the Tranquil River of Heaven. The Sun-Goddess spoke: "Our messenger has tarried in the lower world. Whom shall we...
1. Part 1History and mythology, fact and fable, are closely interwoven in the texture of Japanese life and thought; indeed, it is within relatively recent years only that exact comparati...
5. Part 5Just before the wedding day, Osuzu rejoiced at the arrival of rare gifts from her beloved Tschiotaro. An _obi_ of dewdrops, which held in them the secrets of the sun; a head-dre...