Japanese Folk Tale

An Alphabetical List of
Titles with Tale Numbers
Titles printed in italics are those indicated by Yanagita Kunio as being
of particular importance.
Admitting defeat 151
Animal feuds 310
Animal gratitude 124
Animal races 308
Animals and people 306
The badger's forecast 312
The badger's nest 177
The battle between the monkey
and the crab 325
The bean story 204-
The bee and the dream 68
Benizara, Kakezara 35
The bird fan 157
The bird who begs for water 286
The bird who wants water 281
The bird wife 23
Blundering Sobee 239
The bottomless bag 4-1
The boy magician 83
The boy who had a dream 67
The brothers 51
Bunbuku teakettle 122
The calabash wife 183-c
The carpenter and Oniroku 144
"Carry me on your back" 59
The cat and the rat 316
The cat and the lid of the
teakettle III
The cat and the squash 198
Cat Mountain 112
Cat Mountain and Cat Island 113
The cat temple 130
The cat's joruri 200
The cat's secret 199
Catching sparrows 212
The charcoal, the stra wand the
bean 302
Charcoal-maker Choja 72
A child bestowed by a god 9
The child judge 176
The child of the Sun 173
The child with a long name 234-
Choja from a straw 69
The clam wife 25
The clever man 169
Compar ing disguises 153
The copper pheasant wife 22
The cow bride 15
The cuckoo and her child 276
The cuckoo and the little kettle
273
The cuckoo and the stepchild 272
The cuckoo and the stepmother
277
The cuckoo brothers 269
The cuckoo who was a shoemaker
271
The cucumbers in the Sky 203
Dango J6do 135
The dango son-in-law 250
Dan'ichi, whose ears were cut off
103
The day on which blood flowed
from the eyes of the stone
image 337
Daytime stories 34-7
The demon son-in-law 31
Demon stories 87
Destroying the fox 147
Destroying the ghost 188
Destroying the monkey gods 97
A dialogue with a crab 14-2
A dialogue with a ghost 141
Dividing things that were picked
up 313
The doctor and the sedan chair
231
The dog, the cat, and the ring
125
Domo, Komo 219
Dragonfly Cho ja 71
The eagle's foundling 7