pickYes, I am obsessed with all the flame tree publishing books.
The Japanese myths and tales were very interesting and as I‘ve said in my other reviews, I love how in these books all the tales are small so it‘s easier to read and stay hooked on them.
I had already read the Chinese myths and tales one which is funny because a lot of these tales were influenced by those, but if I had to choose the Chinese were my favorites.
“When Tomozo came the next morning to call his master as usual, he obtained no response to his knocking. At last he entered the apartment, and there, under the mosquito-net, lay his master dead, and beside him were the white bones of a woman. The bones of 'Morning Dew' were twined round the neck of one who had loved her too well, of one who had loved her with a fierce passion that at the last had been his undoing.”
- the peony lantern
“When the weather is fine and the Star Lovers meet each
other after a weary year's waiting it is said that the stars, possibly Lyra and Aquila, shine with five different colours - blue, green, red, yellow, and white - and that is why the poems are written on paper of these colours.”
- the star lovers
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