Tag: Japan
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Purple Heart Warriors and the Nostalgia of History
First a thank you to Great Pods for providing review copies of “Purple Heart Warriors” from the BBC World Service. I gave my initial impression of the first three episodes over on my substack along with a bit of background and behind-the-scenes information about the story. The following will be the official review of the…
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Japanese Fairy Tales Unrated: “The Hare of Inaba.”
The second to last story in this collection of Japanese Fairy Tales, “The Hare of Inaba” is more of what you expect, given the previous six fairy tales. Again, the narrator does a great job of capturing the spirit of these children’s stories with the slightest inflection in his voice and once more the tone…
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Japanese Fairy Tales Unrated: “The Enchanted Waterfall.”
The sixth story in this collection of Japanese fairy tales has a similar light-hearted tone found in the other stories, but with a more western structure. In some ways, this is the Japanese equivalent/retelling of the King Midas story. It’s not apparent when listening. In fact it doesn’t even follow the same beats. At least…
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Japanese Fairy Tales Unrated: “The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab” and “Goblin Spider.”
The fifth track of Japanese Fairy Tales Unrated album is the story of a kerfuffle between a monkey and a crab. Seems pretty straight forward, but the ending is not what you’d expect from a fairy tale. At least not a western one. Even still, the outcome of the battle is brief, grim, and slightly…
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Japanese Fairy Tales Unrated: “The Wonderful Tea Kettle.”
Like Shippeitaro, this tale is confusing because of its non-western roots. Unlike the classic Japanese Fairy tale reviewed two weeks ago, the story “The Wonderful Tea Kettle” jumps around a lot. At first it sounds like a genie, trapped in a magical lamp trope. Before that you get a hint of no one but a…
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