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Tales of old Japan

by A. B. Mitford & Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionPrimary source
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"Tales of Old Japan" by Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale is an anthology published in 1871. This collection presents short stories and firsthand accounts that illuminate Japanese life before the Meiji Restoration. The work blends adapted tales from Japanese sources—including stories of revenge, supernatural creatures, and folk wisdom—with the author's eyewitness observations of traditional ceremonies. From the legendary forty-seven ronins to shape-shifting foxes and grateful cats, these narratives offer Western readers an introduction to Japanese literature, culture, and ritual practices. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Legendary beings and transformations, and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “folklore”, and 4 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Tales” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Folklore”· via Internet Archive
    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· via Open Library

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1966———Search-only preview

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1893-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon and New York, Macmillan and co.English—Public digitized item

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1883-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Macmillan & Co.English—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 20 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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