My Lord Bag Of Rice ♦ By Yei Theodora OZAKI ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales ♦ A...

My Lord Bag Of Rice ♦ By Yei Theodora OZAKI  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



Japanese Fairy Tales Story 1



Title:  My Lord Bag Of Rice



Author:  Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  John Rose



Librivox Recording



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 me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



"My Lord Bag of Rice" (or "Tawara Tōda" (「俵藤太」)) is a Japanese fairy tale about the titular hero aka Fujiwara no Hidesato who killed a giant centipede (mukade) at the request of a dragon-serpent from the underwater Ryūgū-jō (龍宮城) "Dragon Palace". The hero was entertained at the palace and received rewards, which included an inexhaustible bag of rice.[



The story has precedence in the otogi-zōshi version Tawara Tōda monogatari dating to the Edo Period or earlier, and is also given an account in the Taiheiki (14th century).



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