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Yokai · Volume 4

Learn Japanese with Yokai Volume 4: The Fox and the Tanuki

Clay & Yumi Boutwell · Makoto Press

Upper Beginner + JLPT N4 Read it in the app

The nine-tailed fox, the Killing Stone, and the fox's wedding.

Three fox tales: why foxes and tanuki are said to deceive — a trail leading to a nine-tailed fox in a Chinese classic and the court beauty Tamamo-no-Mae; the Killing Stone of Nasu, which you can still visit; and the folktale behind calling a sunshower the fox's wedding.

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Is this the right level for you?

Upper Beginner + · JLPT N4. Folktale narration at a steady pace. The bulk of the collection lives here.

Every level on this site was measured from the book's own Japanese rather than assigned by feel. The numbers below are what the measurement saw, so you can judge the fit yourself instead of taking our word for it.

Distinct kanji
174
Kanji density
22.9%
Average sentence
22.3
N5–N3 vocabulary
74.3%
Pages
85

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