Reading Notes: Japanese Fairy Tales (Lang) Part B

Reading Notes: Japanese Fairy Tales (Lang) Part B by Andrew Lang

(Tanuki: image by rumpleteaser)

Themes that are similar to the ones presented in the stories of part A are also shown in this set of stories. Again, I enjoyed the stories that focused on greediness. One such story was The Crab and the Monkey. I was hoping for less violent outcomes in this story, but that hope went away as soon as the monkey badly injured the crab. I was happy that the crab had friends to help her out, and that the monkey was paid back for the wrong he did. Though, as usual, the resulting death was unsettling to me since I do not think it needed to go that far. I also enjoyed The Magic Kettle. Out of the stories in this unit that involved a tanuki, I liked this one the most because of how the tanuki was portrayed. I think tanuki are very cute so I was glad that the tanuki in this story was portrayed more positively than others. I also liked that Jimmu gave some of his fortune that came from having the kettle/tanuki to the man who originally sold it to him. Uraschimataro and the Turtle was another story I found to be very interesting. I liked all of the descriptions of the great things Uraschimataro saw while riding through the water on the turtle's back. However, the ending made me sad since Uraschimataro found out that his parents had died hundreds of years ago without him realizing that much time had passed. 

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