Japanese Reader Collection Volume 8: Hikoichi Revisited

Two more Hikoichi tales, plus a chilling oni-mask folktale - every sentence broken down for upper-beginner readers of Japanese.

Hikoichi - the dry-witted young man of Kyushu legend - returns to crack a broken-pot mystery at the headman's house, then sidesteps a tanuki who picked the wrong opponent. The third story steps outside the Hikoichi cycle into a different kind of cleverness: a devoted daughter walking a mountain road by night with nothing in her hands but a fearsome oni mask. This vo...