“The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the 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 Sōbee 239
The bottomless bag 41
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 111
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 straw and the bean 302
Charcoal-maker Chōja 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
Chōja from a straw 69
The clam wife 25
The clever man 169
Comparing 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 Jōdo 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 347
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 142
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
Dōmo, Kōmo 219
Dragonfly Chōja 71
The eagle’s foundling 7
The earthworm that wears a reel 292
Eating a demon in one bite 102
The eighth leg of the octopus 161
An exaggeration 202
Exchanging treasures 155
Failing to destroy the fox 193
Failing to eat a mermaid 326
The fake image of Buddha 150
Famous for scenting 210
The famous judge 178
The father’s gift 49
The feud between a man and a fox or a badger 195
Finding a treasure 62
The fish that ate things 201
Fish that talk 338
The fish wife 26
The fish-stone of Nagasaki 342
The flight from Onigashima 93
The flower that reflected a human form 90
Fooling each other 217
The foolish bride 255
The foolish son-in-law 247
The foolish village 257
The forbidden room 131
The fox and the kingfisher 317
The fox harlot 123
The fox in the straw bag 148
The fox, the lion, and the tiger 309
The fox wife 24
The frog son-in-law 12
The frog wife 29
Gengorō’s trip to the sky 214
The ghost in the deserted house 118
The ghost of the mountain pear 115
The ghost of treasure 114
The ghost that cared for her child 6
A gift of thanks from a woman with a newborn babe 332
The girl who tended fires 38
The girl without hands 50
The golden eggplant 172
The golden fan and the silver fan 120
The golden hatchet 80
The golden puppy 82
Gorō’s broken bowl 55
The gourd that made sounds 89
The guest on New Year’s Eve 75
Hachikoku Yama 57
Haibōtarō 39
Hand signals 183-h
The handmill that ground out salt 86
Hanging noodles on the ears 261
The haunted mountain temple 117
The hearth fire on New Year’s Eve 74
Heaven’s blessings and earth’s blessings 60
Help from animals 305
Herring roe 266
The hōin and the fox 194
“Hold fast, stick fast” 58
The horse that dropped coins 171
Hotoke Sama ate red beans 183-b
How the little snake grew 339
How the mole chose a son-in-law 235
The human sacrifice at Nagara Bridge 333
The hunter and his dogs 278
“If anyone sees you, turn into a frog” 65
Improving the omen 180
The invisible straw cloak and hat 156
Issun Bōshi 8
The jar and the little stone 252
The jar of gold coins 63
Jizō Jōdo 134
Kachi-kachi Yama 328
Kahei’s hoe 236
The kappa son-in-law 32
Kashikobuchi 160
The kindness of the bracken 293
Kōbō’s loom 77
Kōketsu Palace 99
Kokōjirō 128
Kōkōzaka 152
Kotsuna, the demon’s child 91
The leak-in-an-old-house 304
Learning gained on a journey 238
A legging on one leg 274
Lies 223
The listening hood 119
The little boy from the Dragon Palace 81
The lizard’s tail 296
The long radish, the carrot, and the burdock 303
The louse and the flea 297
The lucky hunter 213
The lucky new samurai 211
The magic hood with eight disguises 154
The magic ladle 121
The magic mallet 85
The magic towel 78
The man who ate brewer’s grains 241
The man-eating mushroom 116
The manderin ducks at Asonuma 334
Masabō Falls 338
Matching boasts 220
Matching exaggerations 221
Matching laziness 224
Matching long lives 222
Matching stinginess 227
Matching strength 216
Matching tricks 218
The meadowlark and the debt 279
The meadowlark cowherd 280
Miidera 186
The mirror at Matsuyama 267
Misokai Bridge 66
The mochi and the white stones 189
Mochi in the bathroom 258
The mochi race 321
The mole and the bullfrog 301
Momotarō 1
The monkey and the shellfish 311
The monkey farthing 132
Monkey Jizō 139
The monkey raw relish 339
The monkey son-in-law 33
The monkey, the crab, and the mochi 322
The monkey, the crab, and the persimmon 320
The mountain where old women were abandoned 164
Mudsnail Chōja 11
Netarō, the lazy man next door 14
Nishiki Chōja 4
Nonsense stories 344
Not celebrating the New Year 263
The notions peddler and the badger 192
The novice gets his name changed 183-d
Nukabuku, Komebuku 34
“O Sun, the chain” 105
The old bamboo cutter 137
The old man who got a tumor 140
The old man who made flowers bloom 136
The old man who swallowed a bird 138
The old woman’s skin 37
The old woman’s three moles 190
The origin of fleas and mosquitoes 298
The origin of the room 206
The origin of tobacco 299
Otsuki, Ohoshi 42
The otter and the monkey 319
Overhearing private matters 183-i
The owl dyer 288
The ox-leader and the yamauba 106
Part of the song left over 242
The pheasant-crow 264
Picking Nara pears 88
Picking up everything the horse drops 183-a
The pigeon and his parent 287
The poem about ashes 143
Potato-digger Chōja 73
The power of treasures 56
The priest and his novice 183
Prince Yuriwaka 331
The privy at the demon’s house 101
Pulling screens and tossing dango 260
The rabbit’s wife’s 330
Rat Jōdo 133
Rat stura 205
Red rice and the child 179
The reed thrush and the straw sandal 289
Rescuing the beautiful girl 92
The revenge of the crab 326
Rice cakes are ghosts 251
The rice field the monkey and the pheasant cultivated 323
The rice field the rat and the weasel cultivated 324
Rikitarō 2
The river that rose each day 43
Rokubei who had occult sight 209
The sandals three feet long 229
Sara-sara Yama 36
The satori and the hoop 163
The secret of the big tree 162
Sedge hats for Jizō 76
A series of instructions 246
Seven cauldrons 94
A shadow swallowed by a shark 341
Shaking rice 262
Shirataki of Yamada 16
The shrike and the cuckoo 270
The shrimp and the big bird 215
Sieves and old metal 244
The silence match 225
The silkworm god and the horse 335
Singing bones 184
The sister and her younger brother 53
A slip of the tongue 240
A slip of the tongue when buying tōfu 183-f
The snail son-in-law 13
The snake and the treasure of gold 61
The snake in the jar 64
The snake son 10
The snake son-in-law 30
The snake wife 28
The son-in-law on a string 249
The son-in-law’s oral instructions 248
The sparrow 327
The sparrow wine dealer 295
The sparrow with a broken back 127
The sparrow’s filial piety 268
The spider web 191
Squirming through questions and answers 228
Standing a pillar up and finding mochi 183-e
The staring match with a demon 104
The stepchild and the flute 48
The stepchild flower 46
The stepmother ghost 47
Stories about breaking wind 208
Stories about forecasting fortunes 185
Stories with riddles 182
Stories without an end 343
The stork wife 20
The story is stripped off 345
A story like a sanbasō 346
A story with a comic verse 183-k
The straw mat and the soy beans 315
Substituting words 183-j
Success through a bee 70
Surprised twice 196
Tail fishing 318
Takenoko Dōji 5
Tanokyu 159
The tasks of the son-in-law 17
Tea-chestnuts-persimmons 243
The temple patron who was a cat 129
Ten or eleven persimmons 282
The thief’s gambling 168
A thousand bales of ash rope 165
A thousand bundles of thatch 45
A thousand ryō for a saying 174
A thousand wolves 110
The thousand-ri boots 95
The three brothers 54
The three charms 100
Three crying together 230
The three derelicts 232
Three mon for the heron and eight mon for the pigeon 314
The three sons-in-law 254
The tiny hakama 187
The tongue-cut sparrow 126
Travelers turned into horses 98
A treasure match by two chōja 226
The trials by the priest 183-g
“Turn the long head around” 259
Two bolts of white cloth 175
Two mouths, an upper and a lower 197
Tying the pillow on 253
The uneasy old man 237
The unfilial kite 283
The unfilial pigeon 285
The unfilial tree frog 284
Urikohimeko 3
The visit to the Dragon Palace 84
Wagering on stopping bad habits 233
Wanting to go as a bride 256
The warning in the lullaby 145
The Water Spirit’s letter carrier 96
Water that restores youth 79
“What are you the most scared of?” 158
What happens if a shark’s bones are kicked 340
What the boiling kettle said 245
When the earthworm and the snake traded eyes 291
When the stepchild dug a well 44
When the stepchild gathered acorns 40
“Who is it?” 207
Why the jellyfish has no bones 300
The wife from the Dragon Palace 27
The wife from the Sky world 18
The wife who didn’t eat 107
The wife who was a thief 167
The wife without a mouth 108
The wife’s cleverness 166
The wife’s picture 19
The wild duck wife 21
The wild goose and the tortoise 294
The wolf and the old man 307
The wren, king of the birds 290
The wrong one-eye 149
Yakushi in the straw bag 170
Yoshi, Toku 275
The younger brother’s success 52
The younger sister a demon 109
The zatō’s cleverness 181
The zatō’s eggs 265
Zuitonbō 146
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