Culture / tradition
Japanese folktales (Ozaki collection)
Japanese folktales presented through Yei Theodora Ozaki's historical English collection. Entries are labeled as recorded literary retellings rather than a complete account of Japanese tradition.
Japanese folktales (Ozaki collection)Otherworld journey
Urashima Tarō
In Ozaki's retelling, the fisherman Urashima Tarō enters a marvelous undersea realm and later returns home to discover that time has passed very differently in the human world.
Read the entry →Japanese folktales (Ozaki collection)Heroic folktale
Momotarō
Momotarō is discovered through a miraculous peach birth, grows into a formidable youth, and sets out with animal companions toward an island associated with ogres in Ozaki's popular retelling.
Read the entry →Place records are discovery aids. Traditions can span regions, languages, migrations, and modern political borders.