The Farmer and the Badger

This episode is a reading of “The Farmer and the Badger” translated from Japanese by Yei Theodora Ozaki. This story was published in her book titled, “Japanese Fairy Tales” published in Tokio in 1908. Ozaki published three other books where she liberally translated the old stories and fairy tales of Japan. Even though she steeped herself in Japanese traditional stories, she bucked the cultural norms by refusing an arranged marriage, leaving her father’s house, and becoming a teacher and secretary to support herself. She later married a Japanese politician named Yukio Ozaki.