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Provides an overview of Japanese culture and food, including descriptions of staples, information about food production, and recipes.

A Japanese folk tale about the brave daughter of a samurai warrior and her journey to be reunited with her exiled father.

Numbered step-by-step instructions give guidance for drawing martial arts figures in the manga style.

Chieko, a girl who plays the koto in her remote village, is joined by Matsuo, a mysterious flute player from the forest, but when a huge pine tree is needed to rebuild the village bridge, Matsuo disappears and Chieko finds his flute where the tree once stood.

Retells the Japanese folktale about how the beckoning cat became a symbol of luck and prosperity in Japan.

An illustrated retelling of a Japanese folktale about a toymaker whose kindness to an injured cat is greatly rewarded. Presented in English and Japanese.

Translates the Japanese folktale about a young fisherman who finds he has been in the Kingdom Beneath the Sea for, not three years, but three hundred. Provides the Japanese text along with the English translation, and features Shiro Kasamatsu's classic illustrations.

A retelling of the Japanese story in which an old bamboo cutter finds a child in a bamboo stalk, raises her, and is surprised to find that her destiny lies far, far away.

A retelling of the Japanese legend in which a boy named Kintaro, raised in a mountain forest by his mother, befriends all of the forest creatures, becomes a soldier under a samurai lord, and wins fame when he conquers a band of evil demons.

Inchy Bo, a bean-sized boy, decides to become a samurai, and after saving a princess from a demon, is granted his greatest wish. Presented in Japanese with an English verse translation.