Selections from Hearn's Tales

The Boy Who Drew Cats

Chin Chin Kobakama

The Fountain of Youth

The Goblin Spider

The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling

The text originally came from:

Hearn, Lafcadio, translator. Japanese Fairy Tales: The Boy Who Drew Cats. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1898.

Hearn (1850-1904) translated five volumes of Japanese Fairy Tales, including:

The Boy Who Drew Cats (1898)
The Goblin Spider (1899)
The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling (1902)
Chin Chin Kobakama (1903)
The Fountain of Youth (1922) [posthumous]

SurLaLune does not own an original of the text and derived the tales available above from various later publications that used unabridged versions of the original.

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