: Grif: A Story of Australian Life by Farjeon B L Benjamin Leopold - Australia Fiction

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Introductory Note

Madame Yukio Ozaki

RUSHED UPON THE MONSTER AND QUICKLY DESPATCHED HIM TAMETOMO BEGAN TO RISE IN THE AIR YORIMASA COULD NOT TELL WHICH WAS THE LADY AYAME COULD OVERCOME TEN OR TWENTY SMALL TENGU IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE THE PHANTOM HOST DREW NEARER TO THE BOAT DIED STANDING WITH HIS FACE TO THE ENEMY THE HEAD FLEW UP INTO THE AIR THEY ENTERED THE CAVE AND FOUND A MONSTER SPIDER SHIRAGIKU WAS ABOUT TO DASH DOWN INTO THE RIVER SAISHO AND THE BOWL-WEARER WERE AT LAST MARRIED

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Those who three years ago welcomed the appearance of "The Japanese Fairy Book" will be grateful to Madame Ozaki for the new treat afforded in the present volume. "The Japanese Fairy Book" appealed alike to the child, in or out of the nursery, to the student of folk-lore, and to the lover of things Japanese. To all of these the stories here told will come as old friends with new faces.

In a country whose people are born story-tellers, where story-telling long since rose to the dignity of a profession, and the story-teller is sure of an appreciative audience, whether at a village fair or in a city theatre, the authoress had not to go far afield in search of her materials. But the range of this class of literature is wide, embracing as it does all that goes to make folk-lore, legendary history, fairy tales, and myths.

From all these sources the present stories are drawn, and in each case the selection is justified and the story loses nothing in the telling. The simple directness of narrative peculiar to Japanese tales is not lost in the English setting, and the little glimpses we are given into Japanese verse may tempt the reader to do like Oliver Twist and "ask for more."

J.H. Gubbins.

Tokyo, May, 1909.

MADAME YUKIO OZAKI

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, BY MRS. HUGH FRASER

In the attempt to describe a character it is wise to begin, if possible, with its distinguishing attribute, the one which will leave its mark on the time, after the popularity of definite achievements may have passed away. So I will say, before going any further into the subject of this sketch, that if I were asked to single out the person who, to-day, most truly apprehends the points of contact and divergence in the thought of East and West, I would name the gentle dark-eyed lady who is the light of an ancient house in the loveliest part of Tokyo, a spot where, as she sits under the great pines of her garden, she can hear the long Pacific rollers breaking on the white beaches of Japan and listen to the wind as it murmurs its haunting songs of other homes in distant lands where she is known and loved. For though Yei Theodora Ozaki is a daughter of the East in heart and soul and parentage, one to whom all the fine ways and thoughts of it come by nature, she is also a child of the West in training, in culture, in the intellectual justice which enables her to discern the greatnesses and smile indulgently at the littlenesses of both.

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