Found floating on the river inside a peach by an old couple, Momotaro grows up and fights the terrible demons who have terrorized the village for years.
After traveling to the Kingdom Beneath the Sea, a young fisherman thinks he has stayed three years but when he returns home, he discovers he has been gone three hundred years.
Translates the Japanese folktale about a young fisherman who finds he has been in the Kingdom Beneath the Sea for, not three years, but three hundred. Provides the Japanese text along with the English translation, and features Shiro Kasamatsu's classic illustrations.
A retelling of the Japanese story in which an old bamboo cutter finds a child in a bamboo stalk, raises her, and is surprised to find that her destiny lies far, far away.
A retelling of the Japanese legend in which a boy named Kintaro, raised in a mountain forest by his mother, befriends all of the forest creatures, becomes a soldier under a samurai lord, and wins fame when he conquers a band of evil demons.
Inchy Bo, a bean-sized boy, decides to become a samurai, and after saving a princess from a demon, is granted his greatest wish. Presented in Japanese with an English verse translation.
