Kodansha bilingual children's classics

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The adventure of Momotaro, the Peach Boy

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.

Urashima and the Kingdom Beneath the Sea

2000
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.

The moon princess

1996
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.

The adventure of Momotaro, the peach boy

1996
Momotaro, a boy born from a peach, travels to the Land of the Demons, joined by his faithful companions, the Dog, The Monkey, and the Pheasant.

Kintaro, the nature boy

1996
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.

The inch-high samurai

2000
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.
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