Hikoichi Revisited: Learn Japanese with Stories

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 v...