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Title The price of three stories : rare folktales from Japan / Hiroko Fujita & Fran Stallings
Edition First edition
Published Marion, Michigan : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustration
Contents Preface; Stories Heard and Told By Hiroko Fujita; Villagers; Contest of Silence; Crane and Tortoise; A Couple Married on Koshin Day; Two in One Bite; Sewing Lesson; Unhappy Daughter-in-Law; Eavesdropping Mother-in-Law; Poisoning Her Mother-in-Law; An Offering Withdrawn From Buddha; Please; The Price of Three Stories; Tricksters; Fleas on a Skewer; The Bridge Officer; Horse Dengaku; A Love Potion and a Pharmacist's Wife; A Greedy Pharmacist; Offering Paid Back Double; A Horse That Dropped Gold; Moratorium Order; Foxes; Tofu Seller and Fox; Aramaki Salmon; Samurai and Jisama
A Fox ApprenticeOld Man and Grateful Fox; Homesick Bride and Helpful Fox; Oni; In With Oni; Setsubun; Danjuro Enma; Kappa; Kappa's Cream; Sumo Wrestling With Kappa; Many Gods; The God of Age; Apologizing Crow; Eighteen Years to Live; No Gods Here; Jizo Stories; Talking Jizo; Red Face Jizo; Monkeys' Jizo; Kannon; A Dream Millionaire; Lizard and Scarab; Traveling Priests; A Visitor on New Year's Eve; A Blind Visitor on New Year's Eve; Daishi and Forked Daikons; Covering Snow; Kobo Spring; Kobo and Stone Potato; Uncanny Tales; Gourd Cave; Extracting Grease; Yamanji and the Actor; Mr. Red Cat
Ghost With DignityStories of Animals; Two Rival Snakes; Messenger & Serpent; The Frog Priest; Glossary & Pronunciation Guide; Bibliography; Citations and Additional Notes; Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161)
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 14, 2016)
Subject Folklore -- Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Fujita, Hiroko, 1937- storyteller.
藤田浩子, 1937- storyteller
Stallings, Fran, editor.
ISBN 9781624910623
1624910629