日本昔ばなし

by Carla Valentine (Editor)

Genres: Japanese Literature

Tankobon Softcover

First published June 1, 2009

Reviews

[Ian Williamson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read the dual lingual copy, helped with my Japanese reading. The stories were very dumbed down, which helped my second language comprehension, but made the english boring.

[Naohiro Hotta · Rating 4 out of 5]

-Carla Valentine ladder series, level 1
-Time: 9/18= 50 minutes 9/19 = 30 minutes
-7 words: peach, crane, tanuki, cherry blossom, little boy, grandfather, grandmother
-Discussion question
1.What is your favorite story of Japan? Why?
In my case, my favorite story is "Three pigs" because this is the first book that I read when I was a baby.
2.Do you believe that the demon existed? Why do you think?
Yes. In my view, I believe that the demon existed because I often find out the expression of the demon in old Japanese sentence when I read it.

This book was so easy for me to read and understand the meaning, so if you want to know how the story of Japan expresses in English, I recommend this kind of series.

[Anna Taneda · Rating 3 out of 5]

1 long ago stories of Japan 3 IBCパブリッシング
(A tiger on a paper screen)
2 80min

3 long-ago, Ikkyu Zenji, tiger ,rope ,wall, catch, wisdom

4a. ' Yes, my Lord. If you can't drive the tiger out, I can't catch with rope.
4b because Ikkyu have a lot of wisdoms , so I like this story and also I want to guess how he solve the problem with wisdom

5 I read all story in this book and I chose a ' a tigers need a paper screen, because his wisdoms are really clever, so I like him. Always I think wisdoms when I read that book.

[Nagisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Ibc publishing level1
2. 50minutes
3. Peach river grandma grandpa friends sweets monkey
4. A: “Hello, Momo-taro, can I have one of your millet dumplings, please?”
B: I like this phrase because I have heard it many times. Actually I haven't read this so much but this is famous all over the world, I know all of it.
5. Actually this level is 2, so I could read too easily, the reason i chose this was I wanted to read again. Recently I have been read foreign country's story, so I could such as relax. Lol

[Yuki-o]

1.ibc publishing level1

2.110 min

3.Buddhist lord screen tiger drive catch wise

4a.If you can't drive the tiger out, I can't catch it with a rope.

4b.This sentence describes Ikkyu's wiseness. He knew to catch a tiger painted on the screen is impossible phisically, so he said it.

5.I may finished reading Long-ago Stories of Japan's series and I knew Japanese old story I have never read well, so if I have a chance to read many countries's old stories, I will try it

[Kento Okumura · Rating 4 out of 5]

IBC publishing, Level 3
Time 65minutes
summary. Monkey-Jellyfish-each-cheat-Finally-Monkey-win
Have you ever cheated someone？
Yes,especially my parents.

This story was very funny.
In case of me, I don't want to cheat someone.