by Yei Theodora Ozaki · 1908
Twenty-two tales retold for Western children: Urashima Taro rides a tortoise to the Sea King's palace, Momotaro sets out from a peach to fight ogres, and a sparrow loses her tongue to a wicked old woman. Along the way come goblins, talking badgers and monkeys, the Bamboo-cutter's moon-child and the Empress who mends the sky with stones of five colors.