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Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan

by R. Gordon Smith

lst edition

Price: $175.00
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Book desription: Pictorial boards with bright gold; 62 full page color plates, exquisitely bright. Bound in pictorial cloth stamped with gilt title to spine and top panel. Binding a bit bumped at top and bottom of spine,, else very good.Sale benefits literacy projectThe story of the Yofune-nushi was recorded by Richard Gordon Smith in the book Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan. In the story, Yofune-nushi is a monster, living in the sea near the coast of one of the Oki Islands. It demands a tribute of a virgin girl once a year. A brave girl, called Tokoyo, dives into the sea instead of the girl intended as offering and defeats the unsuspecting monster. She also finds a cursed wooden idol that was causing a nobleman grief, thereby lifting the curse.

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