Excerpt from the book for the reader's information:PREFATORY NOTE By Mrs. Isabella L. Bishop, F.R.Q.S. Author of 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' etc. I HOPE that the readers of this book will find it as attractive as I have done. It takes me back to long journeys in 1878, through the then scarcely known interior of Northern Japan, when, far away from Europeans, I lived among the common people, hearing their talk through my clever boy interpreter, and listening during the long evenings by many a family hearth to these and similar tales, which became as familiar to me as the ' Blue-Beard ' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' of my childhood. On such stories the quaint, quiet children of Japan are brought up, and in this harmless myth-world they live, till the cares of life begin to press upon them ; and in their turn they tell the same in the long winter evenings to grave-eyed gentle children of their own, and it is difficult to say whether the myths are dearer to the adult or the child. This Kindle version contains text only, no illustrations.PART I - FOR MY GROWN-UP READERS PART II - ABOUT THOSE WHO READ THE FAIRY TALES PART III - THE FAIRY TALES I. MOMOTARO ; OR, THE PEACH-BOY II. THE OLD MAN WHO MADE THE TREES BLOSSOM III. KACHI KACHI MOUNTAIN IV. THE MAN WITH THE WEN V. THE MAGIC MIRROR VI. THE LUCKY HUNTER AND THE SKILFUL FISHER VII. THE SWORD OF THE ASSEMBLED CLOUDS OF HEAVEN --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.