Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Reading Diary A: Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki)

This is a Reading Diary that details my thoughts of the first section of the Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki) unit. Story source: Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908).
  •  I love that this has an audio recording.  It's such a different experience to have the text read aloud.  
  • This story just has so much mystery.  
  • A dragon's mortal enemy is a centipede ????
  • This has the most beautiful descriptions.  I wish I could visit this palace!
  • Very clever to put his saliva on the arrow!
  • Hidesato thinks he has to go home but he had no idea that he had to kill the centipede initially.  
  • Are these the best presents the dragon king has...
  • Wait inexhaustible rice is actually pretty cool.
  • Oh clever.  He's the Lord Bag of Rice. 
  • The beginning of Kintoki's story is similar to the Count of Monte Cristo.
  • Wow wrestling games with forest creatures, I am so jealous.  
  • Of course the woodcutter happens to be one of the greatest generals of Japan. 
  • This is truly a rags to riches story.  
  • I love love love the image of Mount Fuji.  
  • Oh mortality is sought after in every culture.  
(Mount Fuji from the Untextbook.)

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