Folktales of Okinawa. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

ENDO, SHOJI. Folktales of Okinawa. Translated by Terunobu Tamamori and Jayne A. Hitchcock Naha, Okinawa/Japan: Bank of the Ryukyus International Foundation, 1995. 200 pages. Tables, chronology, illustrations by Fumio Amuro. Hardcover [yen]1,000; ISBN 4-947654-05-8. (In English and Japanese)

The Bank of the Ryukyus International Foundation deserves our thanks for having made the publication of the volume under review possible. We here get 28 tales from Okinawa and the Ryukyu islands in Japanese, followed by translations into English. It is nice to see that the many excellent ...

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