Japanese Fairy Tales Quotes

“There is a proverb which says "As the soul is at three so it is at one hundred,”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“But, alas! in this world nothing lasts forever. Even the moon is not always perfect in shape, but loses its roundness with time, and flowers bloom and then fade.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Yesterday in your honorable shadow my life was saved, and I have come to offer you my thanks and to tell you how grateful I am for your kindness to me.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Thus did the unkind step-mother humble herself and ask forgiveness of the girl she had so wronged.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“One old courtier, Jofuku by name, said that far away across the seas there was a country called Horaizan,”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Then they all surrounded the poop little animal and pulled out all his fur.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West. Y. T. O. Tokio, 1908.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Union amongst ourselves is better than any earthly gain. When we are not at peace amongst ourselves it is no easy thing to subdue an enemy.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“So the jelly fish slowly walked towards the pine-tree. In those ancient days the jelly fish had four legs and a hard shell like a tortoise.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“He found himself, according to his ideas, in the land of Topsyturvydom. Everything was upside down. He had wished to escape from dying. He had come to the land of Perpetual Life with great relief and joy, only to find that the inhabitants themselves, doomed never to die, would consider it bliss to find death.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“he became very rich and prosperous, and was henceforth known as My Lord Bag of Rice.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“But Urashima had remembered his old parents, and in Japan the duty to parents is stronger than everything else, stronger even than pleasure or love, and he would not be persuaded, but answered:”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Don't blame the sparrow, it is your wickedness which has at last met with its reward. I only hope this may be a lesson to you in the future!”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Then they all surrounded the poop little animal and pulled out all his fur. He cried out loudly and entreated them to spare him, but with each tuft of fur they pulled out they said: "Serve you right!”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and sorrows of life.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales

“My Lord Bag of Rice.”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales