Nihongo Tales
Things from the stories
Every story on this site has a tote bag, a T-shirt and a sticker. The tote bag carries a real scene from the story with the line that goes with it — in Japanese, with furigana, and in English underneath. The T-shirt carries the story's main character and its name. The sticker is the character on its own, with one word from the story and its furigana.
Nothing is kept in a warehouse. Each item is printed after you order it and shipped from the printer, so it takes a little longer to arrive than a shop with shelves.
Prices are shown here in US dollars; the shop charges in the currency of the country you are in, so the number there will look different. Shipping is added at the shop — what it costs and how long it takes depend on the country you are in, and both are shown before you pay. Returns and any problem with an order are handled by the shop.
The shop opens on a different website, run for me by Fourthwall. It is called Sazanami — that is the name I publish under, and it is the same person. Nothing you do here is sent to them before you tap through.
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow したきりすずめ
Princess Kaguya かぐやひめ
Momotaro ももたろう
Urashima Taro うらしまたろう
The North Wind and the Sun きたかぜとたいよう
The Old Man Who Made Flowers Bloom はなさかじいさん
Issun-boshi, the One-Inch Boy いっすんぼうし
Saru Kani Gassen, The Monkey and the Crab さるかにがっせん
The Emperor's New Clothes はだかのおうさま
The site stays free whether you buy anything or not. The stories, the audio and the furigana are not going behind a paywall, and nothing here is a better version of what you already have.