A Japanese Fairy Tale: “The Wonderful Tea Kettle” (Bunbuku-Chagama)

Robert Campbell, Director-General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) in Tokyo, reads a Japanese fairy tale titled “The Wonderful Tea Kettle” (Bunbuku-Chagama). This English translation, by Mrs. T. H. James, is found in an illustrated “crepe-paper book” (chirimen-bon) in the Pulverer Collection at the Freer Gallery of Art. “The Wonderful Tea Kettle,” “Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 16,” Freer Gallery of Art.