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By: William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928)

Book cover Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman
Book cover The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of MĂ©iji
Book cover Korean Fairy Tales

Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the particular kind of fairies that inhabit the Land of Morning Splendor.

Book cover Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan

William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Japan in order to modernize the school system and became the Superintendent of Education in the Province of Echizen. Whilst there he became interested in the folk lore, legends and stories of the East and began to collect tales from the story tellers that he met with and the literature that he found there. The thirty four wonderful stories in this collection are some of the ones that he found and fortunately decided to share with us...


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