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Japan folklore (emily, alyssa, talena, shaimaan

Japan Folklore

Japanese Folklore

Emily Loy, Alyssa Long, Shaimaan
Gillani, Talena Snider

Universal Themes The theme of “Greed and Evil will
be punished” can be found in the
★ Greed and evil will be story, “Visue, the Woodsman, and
punished the Old Priest.”

★ Respect and good manners In this story, A man meets a
lead to reward priest who tells him that he is not
praying enough, and working too
★ Honesty is the best policy much. The man stops working and
★ Bravery and responsibility only prays, which makes him
greedy and causes him to neglect
wards positive outcomes his family. After fighting with his
★ Love leads to the greater wife, he goes into the forest and
watches women play a game for
good what he thought was just an
★ Love is worth fighting for afternoon. In reality, his
★ Everything is not always as perception of time was skewed
and he ended up sitting in the
it appears to be/ prejudice forest for 300 years, and his
leads to false perceptions family had all gone and past by the
★ Look before you leap time he noticed.

Universal characters

Common Archetypal Characters

Found in Japanese Folklore-

★ Misfit ★ Evil Family member
★ Rebel
★ Caretaker
★ Innocent

★ Villains

★ Father/mother figures

★ Hero

Archetypal narrative patterns

The Archetypal narrative ★ A quest or series of tests a
pattern of “an unjust family character must pass or perform

member behaves unfairly” ★ A journey the character embarks
can be found in the story, on
“The Mirror of Matsuyama.”

In this story, a ★ A greedy, cruel, or unjust family
stepmother wrongly accuses
member that behaves unfairly
her stepdaughter of trying to

practice witchcraft and kill ★ A just end that rewards good and
her. In reality, the little girl is punishes evil
just playing with the mirror

that her mother gave her as a ★ Love always shines through
gift when she was about to
★ Objects, events, or characters that
pass away.

come in threes

Symbols and Motifs

● Spring (new beginning of an

adventure), ● Rabbit (desire and new life)

● fox(luck) ● Raccoon ( greedy and sneaky)

● moon(life beyond) ● Fire

● Mirror (dead relatives ● Sparrow (joy and protection)

● Red (evil), ● mountain (obstacle/challenge)

● monster head being buried (evil put to ● Mouse (innocence)
rest)
● tiger(fearless and overcoming
● Gods and goddesses of different
obstacles)
things
● Magpies (love and Joy)
● Bamboo stick(stiffness/strongness) ● Water
● Earth (life)

● Sun (life)

● rice(beauty)

● black bowl(ugliness)

● song(hope)

Sources

https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html#twofrogs
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html#peachling
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html#visu
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html#mirror
http://folklorethursday.com/legends/three-evil-yokai-japan/#sthash.XnwdBXR5.dp
https://www.tsunagujapan.com/10-classic-japanese-stories/
http://www.japan-suite.com/blog/2014/7/6/tanabata-story-of-two-star-crossed-lovers
https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/kachi/kachi01.html
https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/suzume/suzume01.html
https://tanukinomonogatari.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/tale-9-ikkyu-san-and-the-tiger/
https://www.kcpinternational.com/2014/07/the-story-of-kasajizo/
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html#bell
https://takelessons.com/blog/japanese-mythology-z05
https://www.tsunagujapan.com/14-japanese-folklore-stories-in-a-few-sentences/
https://fairytalez.com/the-black-bowl/
https://www.themystica.com/japanese-mythology/


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