Gods and goddesses, spirits and ghosts, heroes and beauties, emperors and generals, holy miracle workers and sinful laymen ...

"Tales of Ancient Japan" is an interesting book for both connoisseurs and connoisseurs of the unique Japanese culture, and people who are just beginning to discover it for themselves.

In the first section of the collection, the reader is presented with a bizarre world of Japanese Shinto mythology. The second is devoted to heroic-historical legends. And the third is stories-parables of an instructive nature, in which folk fantasy bizarrely refracted the moral, ethical and philosophical principles of Buddhism.