Two tales from old Japan. First, the shinansha: a wonderful carriage whose little figure always points to the south, invented by a mythical emperor to defeat a magician's fog — and, in the same bright reign, the first boat, dreamed up from watching a spider ride a floating leaf. Then the Golden Boy of the Ashigara mountains: Kintaro, strong enough to pull up a great pine by its roots, who wrestles with the bear, the deer, the monkey and the hare, and is discovered by a general sent through all Japan in search of boys of promise.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
00:05 The “Shinansha,” or the South Pointing Carriage
06:55 The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908), public domain; told in fresh in-house renderings.
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