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Book

Tamamo the fox maiden : and other Asian stories

Author

Spike

Call Numbers

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL TAMA TEEN (CEN, OSH)
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL TAMA (OSH)

Publication Information

[Chicago, Illinois] : Iron Circus Comics, [2018]

Physical Description

288 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"A collection of Asian folktales retold as comics include vengeful spirits, flying ogres, and trickster tigers from Japan, China, Tibet, India, Indonesia and beyond."--

Contents

  • The Lucky Teapot (Japan) / #EndoftheWorld (India) / The Great Flood (China) / The Demon with the Matted Hair (India) / Frog Skin (Georgia) / The Girl Who Married a Tiger (India) / Ghost Pepper (Laos) / Two Foxes (Japan) / After the Rain (Myanmar) / From the Journal of the Monkey King (China) / Urashima Taro (Japan) / The Ballad of Mulan (China) / The Tiger, the Brahmin, and the Jackal (India) / Tongue Cut Sparrow (Japan) / The Legend of Asena (Turkey) / The History of the Spectre Ship (Arabian Peninsula) / Tamamo the Fox Maiden (Japan) / The Three Rhymesters (China) / Gold Sister, Silver Sister, and Wood Sister (Tibet) / Hoichi the Earless (Japan) / The Flying Ogre (China)

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