Japanese Fairy World

William Elliot Griffis, Ozawa Nankoku, Henry W. Troy

About this book

Japanese folktales and wonder stories retold by William Elliot Griffis, with illustrations by Ozawa of Tokyo. Gods, animal transformations, supernatural encounters and everyday ingenuity meet in this nineteenth-century introduction to Japan’s storytelling traditions.

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William Elliot Griffis; illustrations principally by Ozawa Nankoku, engraved by Henry W. Troy. Japanese Fairy World. Schenectady, New York: James H. Barhyte, 1880. The preface names Ozawa Nankoku and engraver Henry W. Troy; the Yorimasa picture is separately attributed to an unnamed student. James H. Barhyte. 1880. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/books/japanese-fairy-world