Here are my notes for the Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki) unit.
The Goblin of Adachigahara: The introduction captured because of the rumor of the cannibal goblin haunting the place! A priest gets lost and he ends up at the haunted cottage where an old woman lives. She bids him welcome and tells him to stay for the night because the night is cold! He ends up staying...
The Goblin of Adachigahara (cont.): The priest thinks he has met a wonderful kind soul who has served him dinner. She tells him not to look in the back room and of course he looks, where he finds the bones of people and blood! The old woman turns into her demon self and chases after him but he escapes. Good for him. So the rumors were true.
The Ogre of Rashomon: This one is about a rumor of an ogre cannibal. I see a trend here. General Raiko is known for slaying ogres and so he and his band of five knights are told of the ogre at the Gate of Rashomon. Watanabe tries to lure it out.
The Ogre of Rashomon (cont.): He, of course, confronts the ogre. The ogre is huge and breathed fire but Watanabe is not frightened. He ends up fighting the ogre back and the ogre escapes. He brings the arm back to his comrades to prove the ogre existed. One day an old woman shows up at his door step.
The Ogre of Rashomon (end): The old woman claims to be his old nurse, wanting to see the ogre's arm. He denies her request at first but she talks him into it. Of course the old woman transforms into the ogre and takes his arm back. He escapes once again and never bothers Kyoto again.
The Story of Princess Hase: A royal couple finally has a daughter, but the mother falls ill when she is only five years old. Her mother tells her to be an amazing daughter and grow up to be a good girl. Her father marries a new woman who is mean and cruel to Hase. Hase, however, is too kind and never caused a problem. She was smart, good at music, poetry, and more and so the Emperor asked her to come perform for him.
The Story of Princess Hase (cont): The Emperor had Hase and her stepmother perform, but her stepmother, Terute, failed to do very good. She ended up being replaced and therefor she became very angry and jealous. Eventually, jealous of the fondness her husband had for Hase and not her own son, she tries to poison Hase but ends up killing her own boy. Go figure. Hase ends up well on her way to becoming a poetess!
The Story of Princess Hase (cont. again): Her notoriety rises as she becomes the most gifted poetess ever. She was revered as a miracle worker and commanded to offer poems in prayer to heal sickness and more for the Emperor. She did as she was told and he recovered, so she was praised and given a royal position of Lieutenant-General Princess. The jealous stepmother orders her servant to take Hase to the wild and abandon her, but the servant ends up taking care of her in the wild instead.
The Story of Princess Hase (end): Back home, Hase's father was lied to and told she ran away. During a hunt one day, he stumbles upon the cottage in the wild and finds Hase-Hime. They return home and the stepmother ran away for fear of punishment of her wickedness. Hase lives a happy life after that.
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