Japanese Folktales is a bedside collection of old stories from Japan, passed down for generations and read to help you fall asleep.
These are the classic tales of Japan: foxes and tanuki who take human shape, humble farmers who stumble into magic, and spirits who live in rivers, mountains, and old bamboo groves. Kindness is often rewarded, greed is often punished, and the strange always turns out to have its own quiet logic. Each story is short, simple, and easy to follow, with the patience of tales told beside a fire.
Each tale is a soft path down toward sleep — good for lovers of world folklore in the spirit of the Grimms or Aesop, with nothing to remember from one night to the next. Andrew Bond holds that fireside pace steady from the first fox to the last.
