("Amphibian frog green frog on wall" by Jon Sullivan)
Two Frogs
-Two frogs lived in japan
-Both of them wanted to see the other's city
-It was a long and tiring journey
-They ran into each other and found out that they were both traveling
-They wanted to go to the other's city
-Stood on each other's backs too look at the opposite's city, but they were actually looking at their own
The Stonecutter
-Once there was a stonecutter who got stone from the side of a big mountain
-He was really skilled, successful, and happy
-A spirit was said to be in the mountain
-The stonecutter kept wishing for things and they were granted by the mountain spirit
-He kept wishing for things and was never happy
-Eventually he wished to be a human again and learned to be satisfied with what he already had and not by other things or people
-He never wished for anything ever again
The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet
-Once there was a happy couple
-They eventually lost everything but their daughter
-The mother and daughter kept up with the house but the father grew very sad and died
-The wife and daughter were miserable
-The daughter became more and more beautiful
-However, her mother thought it would be a bad thing so she made the daughter act like she did
-The mother grew ill
-Told the daughter it would be hard to survive being so pretty so she had to wear a helmet
-She did as she was told and the mother died
-She left that side of the country
-People called her Hatschihime
-She looked after a sick lady
-The son fell in love with her
Bibliography: Japanese Fairy Tales from "The Violet Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang; link to reading online
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