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Discover fascinating ancient Japanese fairy tales as well as the folk tales of the Ainu/Aino. The first book in this collection, titled Japanese Fairy Tales, was written by Iwaya Sazanami and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, a 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. The second book in this collection is a rare one that is not usually available in audio format: Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Chamberlain, one of the most prominent British Japanologists active in Japan during the latter half of the 19th century.

This collection of Japanese fairytales has been translated from the modern version by Sadanami Sanjin. They are not literal translations, and although the story and all the particularly Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they are told with the view to interest a young Western audience.