Reading Notes: Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki) Part A

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This story is part of the Japanese Fairy Tales (Ozaki) unit. Story source: Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908).

This is a very interesting and impressive story. Actually, this is the first time that I read the Japanese myth. The story tells that a brave warrior Hidesato helps the Drago King of the lake to kill his enemy - a huge centipede.

I was shocked by the story's depiction of different scenes. For example, when Hidesato first met the dragon, the story said, "Its body was so big that it looked like the trunk of a large pine tree, and it took up the whole width of the bridge. One of its huge claws rested on the parapet of one side of the bridge, while its tail lay right against the other. The monster seemed to be asleep, and as it breathed, fire and smoke came out of its nostrils." I would say that this paragraph gives me many inspirations about how to describe a specific object. First, the author compares the dragon's body to a pine tree. This process not only shows the huge of the creature but also shows the texture of the dragon's skin. Next, the writer chooses to use the bridge to further represent the dragon's giant. The following sentence tells the posture of the dragon. This step helps readers continue to imagine a picture in their mind. In quick succession, the author adds some magic factors into the plot which is also important to the mythology. 

Then, when Hidesato enters the palace, Dragon King fetes him. The scenes of the feast are also gorgeous. For example, "The dishes were crystallized lotus leaves and flowers, and the chopsticks were of the rarest ebony". For me, I always want to put these elegant descriptions into my own storybook cause I believe that they will make the reader immersive. 

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