Japanese folktales are an important cultural aspect of Japan. In commonplace usage, they signify a certain set of well-known classic tales, with a vague...
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folktales collected through the ages. The name mukashi-banashi (tales of "long ago" or from "bygone times") has been applied to the common folktale,...
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Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan (ふるさと再生(さいせい) 日本(にっぽん)の昔(むかし)ばなし, Furusato Saisei: Nippon no Mukashi Banashi) is a 258-episode long Japanese anime television...
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The Snail Son is a character that appears in Japanese folktales, as a type of enchanted husband that becomes disenchanted from his animal form and becomes...
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Uriko-hime (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
English: Princess Melon, Melon Maid or Melon Princess) is a dark Japanese folktale about a girl that is born out of a melon, adopted by a family and...
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The Fire Boy is a Japanese folktale collected by scholar Seki Keigo. It tells of a boy expelled from home to another realm and, thanks to the efforts...
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who narrates folktales from the Arabian Peninsula to her three grandchildren. The second season will be set in Neom. Future's Folktales was a co-production...
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Tsuru no Ongaeshi (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
Hospitality—Through a Japanese Folktale—". PsyArt. 20: 197–207. Kitayama, Osamu (2005). "Prohibition against Looking: Analysis of Japanese Mythology and Folktales". In...
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Tikki Tikki Tembo (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
type-codes exist. Kunio Yanagita No code is assigned in his Japanese edition: Catalog of Japanese Folktales (日本昔話名彙, Nihon mukashibanashi meii) (Yanagita 1948):...
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Late Night Tales Told on Ondol Floors), which is a Japanese-language collection of Korean folktales by Jeong In-seop that was published in Tokyo in 1927...
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