Tales of Old Japan

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Author

Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron, 1837-1916

Credits

E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Japan -- Social life and customs

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13015

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13015

Release Date

July 24, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TALES OF OLD JAPAN — by
2. 2.LORD REDESDALE, G.C.V.O., K.C.B. — FORMERLY SECOND SECRETARY TO THE BRITISH LEGATION IN JAPAN — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN AND CUT ON WOOD BY JAPANESE ARTISTS — 1910
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — TALES OF OLD JAPAN
6. 6.THE FORTY-SEVEN RÔNINS
7. 7.THE LOVES OF GOMPACHI AND KOMURASAKI
8. 8.KAZUMA'S REVENGE
9. 9.THE STORY OF GOMPACHI AND KOMURASAKI — NOTE ON ASAKUSA — NOTE ON THE GAME OF FOOTBALL.
10. 10.THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF FUNAKOSHI JIUYÉMON
11. 11.THE ETA MAIDEN AND THE HATAMOTO — NOTE — FAIRY TALES
12. 12.FAIRY TALES — THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW — THE ACCOMPLISHED AND LUCKY TEA-KETTLE — THE CRACKLING MOUNTAIN — THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO BLOSSOM — THE BATTLE OF THE APE AND THE CRAB — THE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE PEACHLING — THE FOXES' WEDDING
13. 13.THE HISTORY OF SAKATA KINTOKI
14. 14.THE ELVES AND THE ENVIOUS NEIGHBOUR
15. 15.THE GHOST OF SAKURA — THE GHOST OF SAKURA. 60 — NOTE.
16. 16.HOW TAJIMA SHUMÉ WAS TORMENTED BY A DEVIL OF HIS OWN CREATION — CONCERNING CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS
17. 17.CONCERNING CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS — THE VAMPIRE CAT OF NABÉSHIMA — THE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL CAT — HOW A MAN WAS BEWITCHED AND HAD HIS HEAD SHAVED BY THE FOXES — THE GRATEFUL FOXES — THE BADGER'S MONEY — THE PRINCE AND THE BADGER — JAPANESE SERMONS
18. 18.JAPANESE SERMONS — SERMON I — (THE SERMONS OF KIU-Ô, VOL. I) — SERMON II — (THE SERMONS OF KIU-Ô, VOL. I) — SERMON III — (THE SERMONS OF KIU-Ô, VOL. 1) — APPENDICES
19. 19.APPENDIX A — AN ACCOUNT OF THE HARA-KIRI — (FROM A RARE JAPANESE MS.) — ON THE PREPARATION OF THE PLACE OF EXECUTION — ON THE CEREMONIES OBSERVED AT THE HARA-KIRI OF A PERSON GIVEN IN CHARGE TO A DAIMIO. — ON CERTAIN THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND BY THE WITNESSES. — CONCERNING SECONDS (KAISHAKU).
20. 20.APPENDIX B — THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY — (FROM THE "SHO-REI HIKKI"—RECORD OF CEREMONIES.) — NOTE. — ON THE BIRTH AND BEARING OF CHILDREN — (FROM THE "SHO-REI HIKKI.") — FUNERAL RITES — (FROM THE "SHO-REI HIKKI.") — NOTE.
21. 21.THE END

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