Kobutori Jiisan
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"Kobutori Jiisan" translated directly as "Lump-Taken Old Man" is a Japanese folktale about an old man who had his lump taken or removed by demons after joining a party of demons celebrating and dancin
Old man with lump sees the oni marching.―Cover of the 1886 translation.
The man's lump is taken by the oni (demons).
Yei Theodora Ozaki
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Yei Evelyn Theodora Kate Ozaki was a Japanese translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after h
Kobutori Jiisan
…this time period to replace native Japanese concepts with equivalent Christian ones in these translated stories. "How an Old Man Lost his Lump" by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1903) was a retelling based on a published Japanese text edited by Sazanami Iwaya. Though not a literal translation by her own admission, it has been…
Yei Theodora Ozaki