Download or read book Japanese Animal-wife Tales written by Fumihiko Kobayashi and published by International Folkloristics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By re-examining the gender-specific behaviors of both the animal-woman and her human spouse, this book recovers the sociocultural and historical contexts that underlay their behaviors to demonstrate the actual gender characteristics that shaped the original Japanese Animal-Wife tales, highlighting the assertive, rather than naïve, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition.