Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, this book captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the modern era. This is the first time for these 299 tales to be published in English. In 2008, a companion volume of 118 tales was published by Rowman & Littlefield as the The Legends of Tono. Taken together, these two books have the same content (417 tales) as the Japanese language book Tono monogatari.