Old Tales Retold: Here Be Dragons
The second volume of Old Tales Retold is out! As with Sprites and Goblins, I didn't feel the book itself was the place for notes on the background of the stories: so I'm putting them here instead. The Dragons of Lake Biwa This story was published by Yei Theodora Ozaki in Japanese Fairy Tales in 1908. Ozaki freely retold the traditional stories she collected; this one, interestingly, is about an historical figure - Fujiwara no Hidesato lived in the tenth century, travelling to
