Learn Japanese with Stories

Momotaro, the Peach Boy, is perhaps the most famous of all Japanese folktales: a boy born from a giant peach, raised by a loving old couple, who sets off to face the terrible oni with three brave companions, a dog, a monkey and a pheasant.This...

This audiobook brings you two of Japan's most beloved tales. The first is the story of a samurai no taller than your pinky finger: a tiny hero with a sewing needle for a sword, who sets out to make something of himself, saves a princess, and sees his...

This audiobook brings you two of Japan's most beloved folktales. The first is The Mouse Bride: a proud mouse couple are determined to marry their beautiful daughter to the greatest one in all the world. Their search takes them to the sun, the clouds,...

This audiobook brings you two of Japan's most beloved folktales. The first is The Cut-Tongue Sparrow: a gentle story of a kind old man, the little sparrow he loves, and a cruel act that sends him searching deep into the mountains, where kindness and...

Two of the most haunting tales in Japan. First, Yuki-Onna, the Snow Woman. A father and son, woodcutters both, are caught far from home by a blizzard and shelter for the night in a small hut. What comes through the door of that hut has been...

This volume is a little different from the rest of the series. Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl is not a Japanese folktale at all. It is Danish, first published in 1845, but it has been loved in Japan for well over a century, and...

Hikoichi is back. If you listened to Volume One, you already know him: the clever young man whose quick thinking always leaves somebody else scratching their head. This volume brings three more tales, and in the last of them Hikoichi steps aside for a...