Ozaki: 56 books

Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871 – 1932) was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death. Ozaki came from an unusual background. She was the daughter of Baron Ozaki,...

2 works of Yei Theodora Ozaki Translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales (1871-1932) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Yei Theodora Ozaki. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Japanese Fairy Tales - Warriors of Old Japan and Other Stories

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Many of us are familiar with Grimm's Fairy Tales, or children's stories from France, England, China, India and Germany, but are less aware of similar folk tales and children's stories from Japan....

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908) Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe (1900) The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1906) Tales of Old Japan by Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (1910) The Religion...

It looks like a murder that couldnt have happened. Frank Caponelli (a/k/a Monsieur Francois), owner of a downtown beauty salon in fashionable Westport, Connecticut, is found dead in his apartment, with a knife wound in his back.The knife, wiped clean, is on the table beside him.Every door and window...

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) might be one of the most impressive effects to demonstrate the power of plasmonic approaches in spectroscopy and became one of the "triggers" for the rapidly emerging field of plasmonics. This book provides a review of some recent developments...

First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged...

This book is a fabulous compilation of classical Japanese tales collected and narrated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, such as: My Lord Bag of Rice The Tongue-Cut Sparrow The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad The Farmer and the Badger The "Shinansha" or the South Pointing...

This is the first book to investigate individual’s pessimistic and optimistic prospects for the future and their economic consequences based on sound mathematical foundations. The book focuses on fundamental uncertainty called Knightian uncertainty, where the probability distribution governing uncertainty...

His old widowed mother would not die happy unless he were rehabilitated, and to this end he knew that she and his faithful wife, O Yumi, prayed daily before the family shrine. How often had he racked his brains to find some way by which it were possible to prove his unchanging fidelity to Shusen;...

“Ho sempre trovato persone desiderose di ascoltare le bellissime leggende e fiabe del Giappone, e mentre le raccontavo capivo che erano in larga parte ancora sconosciute. Questo mi ha incoraggiato a scrivere per i bambini occidentali.” In questo libro l'autore raccoglie le antiche fiabe...

Natsuru Nanao, a 6th grader who lives alone with his mother, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the reserved and driven Rio Suzumura. Natsuru plays hookey from soccer camp that summer, and instead of telling the truth to his mother, he spends all his time with Rio and her kid brother at their rickety house, where a dark secret threatens to upend their fragile happiness.

These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

Princes, princesses, goblins, ghouls, dragons, and more abound in these twenty-two Japanese fairy tales translated and retold for young Western readers.   Prepare to encounter action and adventure in this highly regarded collection of classic Japanese tales, in which you’ll meet a dragon king,...