Chinese Fables Remembered

Title

en_US Chinese Fables Remembered

en_US Asian Folktales Retold

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: jpn

en_US As told by Miwa Kurita; Translated by Matthew Galgani

Creator

en_US Kurita, Miwa

Contributor

en_US Mitsukuri, Saoko

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:26Z

en_US 2011-01

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US Originally published in Japan by Hoshinowakai. In The Brothers and the Birds, a kind younger brother, thrown out of the home by his older brother, is taken by some grateful birds to a land of gold, with which he fills his shoes and is satisfied. The older brother puts himself in a position where the birds will do the same for him, but he brings along three large bags, which he fills with gold. The birds are not able to carry him home. He plummets to earth and is never heard from again. I would say that the magic bird-transport of the human being moves this story into the fairy-tale category. The second story, The Two Rooster Friends, may not work for us. A conceited purple rooster more than once gets himself into trouble taking on tasks he cannot do. When a duck asks him why he jumped into a river when he did not know how to swim, the purple rooster decides never again to wander away from his home. I miss the wit of this tale. This book originally belonged to the Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, NY.

Identifier

en_US 9780893469450

en_US 7067 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82344

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Heian International

en_US Berkeley, CA

Subject

en_US PZ10.842 .K87 2006

en_US Chinese

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole