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Fairy Tales of Old Japan by William Elliot Griffis, ISBN: 9781910660294, Sovereign, 126 pp These harmless stories tickled the imagination of Japanese children during untold generations, may amuse the big and little folks. The thirty-four stories included within this volume do not illustrate the bloody, revengeful or licentious elements, with which Japanese popular, and juvenile literature is saturated. These have been carefully avoided. William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, the son of a sea captain and later a coal trader. During the American Civil War, he served three months in the 44th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment after Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. After the war, he attended Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating in 1869. His most popular literary works include a collection of Fairy Tales of Old Japan (ISBN: 9781910660294). Japanese Fairy Tales,日本昔話,Japan,日本,日本国,fairy tale,children,magic,bedtime,stories,folklore,stories,fairies,family,society,social,heart-warming

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Author
William Elliot Griffis
Publisher
Sovereign Classic
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781910660294
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fantasy, Short Stories, Fiction

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