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Project Gutenberg's Japanese Fairy World, by William Elliot Griffis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan Author: William Elliot Griffis Illustrator: Ozawa Release Date: July 6, 2009 [EBook #29337] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JAPANESE FAIRY WORLD *** Produced by Delphine Lettau, Jen Haines and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net JAPANESE FAIRY WORLD - TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES - MACRONS The use of the macron above the letter "O" in names throughout the book is inconsistent. The same name may appear either with or without a macron or the macron may appear above different letters when the same name is printed in different places through the book. This has been left as printed in the original book. In the plain text version, macrons are indicated by [=o] in place of the letter "O" with the macron above it. Macrons do not appear above any letter other than "O". For further transcriber's notes, please see the end of the text. [Illustration: HOW THE SUN-GODDESS WAS ENTICED OUT OF HER CAVE.] JAPANESE FAIRY WORLD. STORIES FROM THE WONDER-LORE OF JAPAN. BY WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, AUTHOR OF "THE MIKADO'S EMPIRE." ILLUSTRATED BY OZAWA, OF TOKIO. LONDON: TRUeBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1887. PREFACE. The thirty-four stories included within this volume do not illustrate the bloody, revengeful or licentious elements, with which Japanese popular, and juvenile literature is saturated. These have been carefully avoided. It is also rather with a view to the artistic, than to the literary, products of the imagination of Japan, that the selection has been made. From my first acquaintance, twelve years ago, with Japanese youth, I became an eager listener to their folk lore and fireside stories. When later, during a residence of nearly four years among the people, my eyes were opened to behold the wondrous fertility of invention, the wealth of literary, historic and classic allusion, of pun, myth and riddle, of
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