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Kristin
Registered User
(8/20/02 4:00:59 pm)
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Bamboo
Since we moved, I've misplaced a few of my Japanese folklore books and was hoping some of you could help me. I'm looking for folk tales involving bamboo or takenoko (bamboo shoots.) I've found a few folk ghost stories with pine trees but no luck with bamboo in the books I can find.
Kristin
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Midori
Unregistered User
(8/21/02 4:06:44 am)
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bamboo princess
Kristin,
There is a well known story "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" (it's referenced in The Genji Monogatari). It's also known as "Shining Princess of the Slender Bamboo"--while it's not specifically about a bamboo, it does suggest the idea of the bamboo groves themselves as places of power and spirituality. A bamboo cutter discovers a beautiful child in the grove and she becomes a diety at the end. It's pretty cool.
Aish...that's little enough to go on, but a search of the tale might render other sources...sorry it's not more.
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Rebecca
Unregistered User
(8/21/02 7:00:16 am)
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bamboo
There is an evil stepmother type story called "The Flute" in Grace James's collection of Japanese fairy tales in which bamboo plays a pretty significant part, and there's also the tale "The Bamboo Boy," which you can find on-line.
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Kristin
Registered User
(8/21/02 10:33:53 am)
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Re: bamboo
Midori and Rebecca -
I'm pretty sure the tale I was thinking of was the Bamboo Cutter. I will check into "The Flute" too. Thank you for the suggestions. I think I had the Grace James book but I can't find it now. Thank goodness I do still have my Genji translation!
Kristin
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