Classic Japanese Short Stories

Here are 22 charming Japanese Fairy Tales, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including "My Lord Bag of Rice", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad", "The Farmer and the Badger", "The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage", "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy", "The Story of Princess Hase", "The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die", "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moonchild", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", and more.

Eleven strange, unsettling, and darkly comic stories reveal the brilliance of one of Japan’s greatest modern writers. In *Tales Grotesque & Curious*, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa turns monks, thieves, servants, scholars, devils, and ordinary people into unforgettable studies of vanity, fear, faith...