WARRIORS OF OLD JAPAN AND OTHER STORIES BY YEI THEODORA OZAKI AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE FAIRY BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY SHUSUI OKAKURA AND OTHER JAPANESE ARTISTS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK 1909 [Illustration: RUSHED UPON THE MONSTER AND QUICKLY DESPATCHED HIM] PREFACE The kind reception given to "The Japanese Fairy Book" has encouraged me to venture on a second volume of stories from Japan. I have invented none of these stories. They are taken from many different sources, and in clothing them with an English dress my work has been that of adapter rather than translator. In picturesqueness of conception Japanese stories yield the palm to none. And they are rich in quaint expressions …
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