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Folktales from Japan

Season 2 2013 - 2014

  • 2013-04-06T15:00:00Z on TV Tokyo
  • 25m
  • 19h 9m (52 episodes)
  • Japan
  • Japanese
  • Drama, Anime
Folklore, myth, legend, and festival origin stories from across Japan.

52 episodes

A mother provers her love, and old man’s accidental gift is repaid (repeat from episode 2), and a man gets greedy with his prayers.

The bat flies at dusk, an old man with a bump dances for a demon band (repeat from episode 3), and lunch works.

A good deed is repaid, a dog rewards a kind master (repeat from episode 1), and a bumpkin gets the last laugh.

A man learns about the importance of community, a couple creates a child from dirt (repeat from episode 4), and a skylark ruins everything.

A mother fights for her daughter, we learn the tale of Sakata no Kintoki (repeat from episode 6), and toot causes great embarrassment.

A radish saves; a thief is scary, a wolf is scary, but the worst is the Furuya Flora (repeat from episode 12); and can a horse poop gold?

A young girl is thrown into the river, an old woman's gift is repaid (repeat from episode 1), and a king learns a lesson.

A simple trip leads to an unfortunate life, a fox learns of karma (repeat from episode 8), and the Fire god is lonely.

A man fights fate, a lazy man gets the cow (repeat from episode 2), and a son sees his father.

A man marries a unique woman, a flower seller forgets to keep his promise (repeat from episode 11), and a farmer makes it rain.

A monkey steals a baby, a small shows the biggest bravery (repeat from episode 2), and a unique shapped baby growns into a unique man.

A female fox; the meaning of "Hirarin, Heirin, Tairarin, Tairabayashi and Ippachijuu no Mokumoku, and Hitotsutoyattsudetokkikki" (repeat from episode 4), and a legendary hero can't catch a break.

Dainichi Nyorai guides a family, a fisherman learns to appreciate what he has (repeat from episode 7), and a young monk learns not to judge a book by its cover.

A runner saves a group of monkeys at an expensive cost; the Sun, Moon, and Thunder come to an agreement (repeat from episode 50), and a woodcutter gets the last laugh.

A southern ruler named Yuriwaka is abandoned on an island, an old man brings home a boy named "Fire Man" (repeat from episode 15), and a stingy priest tells the children at his temple that his snacks are made of poison, but...

A stranger comes to a fishing village, which plans to catch lots of fish through poisoning the river. As the villagers debate, they are warned against this by a traveling priest; a fisherman saves a little turtle and is taken to an undersea palace (repeat from episode 5), and two boys go to ask the fire god to help them with a demon who's been raiding their village.

An old man saves a broken swallow, who rewards him with a magic watermelon seed; a man encounters a terrifying ghost at a haunted stream (repeat from episode 18), and a traveling priest visits a village where an evil dragon is devouring virgin sacrifices.

Two men are visited in dreams by their dead fathers, rats fight it out in the sumo ring (repeat from episode 15), and a mysterious old man makes magic with watermelons.

A fallen lord sacrifices his prized possessions for a traveling monk; a princess is found in a stalk of bamboo (repeat from episode 20), and a priest tricks a fox, and finds himself confronted by the lost souls of hell.

A musician is haunted by the spirits of fallen samurai, two massive men duel for supremacy (repeat from episode 16), and a transforming badger runs a con at a mountain pass.

The ghostly voices of children cry out at night from a haunted bed, a man tries a new strategy to sell his wares (repeat from episode 23), and the dancing bones of a murdered man bring fame and wealth to the one who killed him.

A titan lays siege to a small fishing village, an evil lord steals a man's beautiful wife (repeat from episode 18), and friends of a lord plot to take back his money from a fox haunting in a graveyard.

A puppet master visits a strange temple, a goddess is punished for her dalliances (repeat from episode 16) and an arrogant whale loses a race.

A girl sings a song, and her father is sacrificed; a son is tasked with taking his mother to the mountains, where she will left to die (repeat from episode 19), and a tense hostage situation at a sumo wrestler's dojo.

Crabs seek revenge upon a monkey for wounding their mother, and are aided by a mortar and cow poop; a divine oracle leads a man to riches (repeat from episode 16), and a man's head becomes the scene of strange happenings.

A simple trip leads to an unfortunate life (repeat from episode 60), a mother fights for her daughter (repeat from episode 57), and a bumpkin gets the last laugh (repeat from episode 55).

A massive pumpkin grows from a tiny vine and a man is very happy; parents hear from the mountain god and water god that their child will be stolen by Kappas on his twelfth birthday (repeat from episode 21), and a huge willow stands in front of a tea shop. The son of the shop saves it from being cut down.

Midon the fisherman is wounded and can't go fishing, so he borrows money from a samurai - but can't pay it back; a wife gets mad at her drunkard husband and returns to her parents - but she misses her husband now that she's left him (repeat from episode 24), and a young servant named Sutekichi loves katanas. He wants his own, so he pays a blacksmith with a thousand logs to make one for him.

An old man loved a swallow, but when it eats his wife's glue, she cuts out its tongue. He goes deep into the mountains to find her... A packdriver buys a good horse in town, and then some mackerel to give to the god of horses (repeat from episode 29), and Shinkichi works at a soy sauce shop, but since he's so careless everyone treats him like a child.

A statue by the river reminds a boy of his dead mother. His stepmom tells him that if the statue will eat a rice ball, he can have one too, so off he goes. The insect children are playing in the depths of the forest when walking stick falls from a tree and starts to cry (repeat from episode 31). One late night, a pack driver is returning home when he meets a beautiful woman.

A fisherman's wife dies from illness, and he meets a woman who looks just like her on the rocks of a cape. The white rabbit who lives on the island of Inaba tries to trick the crocodiles to let him cross the sea, but they strip off his skin (repeat from episode 35), and Doujimaru is said to be the son of the white fox, and to have inherited his mother's mysterious powers.

A young servant girl is given a demon mask as a goodbye present, and goes to a new place to work. A young boy learns that if you put on a Tengu's cape you'll be invisible. He steals the cape from the Tengu, and now he can play all the tricks he wants, but... (repeat from episode 28). "We've saved this money up for the future. Don't waste it," an old husband tells his silly wife... but then, a pair of thieves come when he's not home.

An old woman cuts off the leg of an octopus on the beach, and gets rich by selling it at the market. A groom is given botamochi rice balls at his bride's village. He wants his mom to make them, so he keeps saying "botamochi" on the way home, but then he trips and rises up saying, "dokkoisho!" (repeat from episode 34). A strong-willed and hardworking mother goes all alone to Ashitaka Mountain, where a Tengu lives. But she doesn't come back.

"If I can make a hundred swords in a night, give me your daughter," a traveler says, and locks himself in a blacksmith's forge. There was a mean doctor who lived in a village. One night, he goes to a mansion to save a young girl who's having a hard birth (repeat from episode 33). Senkamejo grew up spoiled by her mother, and was the prettiest girl in town, but selfish and arrogant. One day she hears that a beautiful statue of Kannon-sama is at the temple, and she and her mother go to see it.

A raccoon badly injures a kind old woman. The rabbit hears about this from her husband, and angrily avenges her. A child is picking up chestnuts in the forest, and before he knows it it's night. A demon grannie catches him (repeat from episode 37). A new hand washing basin has been put in the village shrine. But the kappa used this stone to sit on and think or keep watch.

A mysterious woman visits a candy store every night. The owner follows her after she leaves, but she disappears into a grave... A traveling merchant buys his partner's dream of treasure for a lot of money (repeat from episode 1). The beautiful daughter of a rich man is sent to marry tougorou the potato digger. Tougorou is lonely and miserable and poor in the mountains, but one day...

A field worker named Manzou gets a small field with a shrine from the rich man. A charcoal-maker takes pity on a crane being sold by the road, and pays money to free it (repeat from episode 36). An old man loves to fish at night at a waterfall. He gets old and decides to retire, and gives his fishing pole to a young man.

A huge rock saves a village from a flood. The villagers use it to make a giant statue, but the statue is too big to carry to the temple. But then the statue... (repeat from episode 37). A poor old man goes to sell balls of thread for new years. Gorouhei, a poor man, trades an old basin from his family for rice.

A couple works hard but is still poor, and meets the new year with a sigh. On new years, a man can't sell his hemp so he trades it for an umbrella (repeat from episode 39) and an honest cow-herd meets a strange monster who can read thoughts.

There is a splendid picture of a rooster in the room where the crimson flower merchant says. And they say that it crows at midnight. God creates the calendar to rule the world, and wants the animals to protect it. The animals all rush to God's temple on new years. But the rat lies to the cat (repeat from episode 40). Zenzaemon, of Kishou Swamp, is sent to learn the secrets of salt-making from Akou Province and is caught. But official Ooishi Kuranosuke is moved by his devotion to his homeland, and lets him go.

A woodcutter meets a wounded deer in the mountains. He saves it from a hunter and watches until its wounds are healed... The Fox comes to see the river otter, who is good at catching fish. He takes fish from the river otter but never gives any himself. And so the River Otter comes up with an idea... (repeat from episode 41). A young man in the village of Matagi, Hachirōtarō, goes to the mountains with two of his friends, but as he gets ready for dinner he gives into his hunger and eats their fish.

An old woman loses her husband in a storm, but a statue of a god washes up with his boat and she worships it. One day in early spring, as the children are playing, a young man suddenly appears. A young carpenter is trying to build a bridge across a river, but every storm that comes washes it away.

Governor Shimada has come to Kazusa, where there is no water and the harvest is dependant on the rain. Two men tie a pipe between their houses so they can talk even when they're snowed in. Even though they were alone, they could cheer each other up by talking, but then they stop getting answers... (repeat from episode 46). The priest tries to raise a fava bean tree to help the starving villagers, but the kids at the temple eat it.

The lord of a poor province is sad to see how weak his sumo wrestlers are for this year's tournament, but they all defeat even the strongest wrestlers. A fava bean, a piece of straw, and a piece of charcoal all bounce out of an old woman's kitchen and decide to visit Ise (repeat from episode 42). There are two men who live on the east and west side of town, and each night they come to a bar to drink. They always drink the same drink, and insult each other.

The stinkvine weed smelled terrible, and the big tree always made fun of it. To save a girl from a demon, a traveling monk goes to find the one thing it fears, "Shippeitaro" (repeat from episode 9). Buhei is a man proud of his strength.

There is a man who can hear the voices of the vinegar he makes. A bird gets its leg stuck in a rice ball. There was a young man who was afraid of nothing.

A young woodcutter seeks shelter from a blizzard with his master. A young woman has a horse she loves (repeat from episode 38). After the battle between the Heike and the Genji, a young girl finds a conch shell on the beach that she feeds to her mom.

Cowherd Okaru took care of a young black calf that transformed into a handsome young man when it was three years old. Momotarō is born from a peach, and raised by an old couple into a strong young boy (repeat from episode 40). Seibei is known as a man who loves to eat soba noodles.

A demon and his son live in the mountains. The princess of Ryuuguu castle has a baby (repeat from episode 49). Taikichi, who always gives an offering to the Ryuuguu Abyss, is given a wife and child by Ryuuguu Palace.

Asakichi and his wife save the thunder when it falls from heaven. A rough country girl who doesn't know how to be polite says "o" in front of everything because her mom tells her to (repeat from episode 48). A young, hardworking girl is to be adopted by her master, but his jealous wife makes her quit while the master is away.

Gonpachi was working hard at a gold mine to raise money for his family. Three brothers get lost in the mountains and find themselves at the house of a terrifying mountain grannie (repeat from episode 50). A traveler comes to an inn on the Sumidagawa river. She's looking for her son who vanishes.

A statue by the river reminds a boy of his dead mother. His stepmom tells him that if the statue will eat a rice ball, he can have one too, so off he goes (repeat from episode 82). A new hand washing basin has been put in the village shrine. But the kappa used this stone to sit on and think or keep watch (repeat from episode 87). A massive pumpkin grows from a tiny vine, and a man is very happy (repeat from episode 79).

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