Hukumusume Fairy Tales Collection

Hukumusume Fairy Tales Collection is a website where you can hear traditional folk tales, legends and fairy stories – from Japan and all around the world – read aloud for you in Japanese. You can listen to readings of Japanese legends and folklore, short stories from the Edo period and traditional ghost tales. The website includes not only the audio but also text of the stories. There are some animated ‘kamishibai’ (Japanese-style picture story shows). This site in in Japanese but you can look for specific stories using a keyword search.