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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

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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