Japanese Fairy World - William Elliot Griffis

Excerpt from Japanese Fairy World: Stories From the Wonder-Lore of Japan
But all of them, I feel sure, reflect the spirit of Old Japan. "The Fire-Fly's Lovers," "The Child of the Thunder," "Little Silver's Dream," "Lord Cuttle-Fish's Concert," "Lord Long-Legs' Procession," and "The Gift of Gold Lacquer," exist in no Japanese text. They were suggested by what I saw of the lovely, the comic, or the pompous side of life in a Daimio's Castle. Several of the others have been adapted from native legends and operas. Such old friends as "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow," "The Ape and the Crab," "The Two Frogs," and "The Idol and the Whale," are partly folk-lore, and partly of definite authorship.
As for the Japanese names and phrases, I think you will have no trouble with them, if you will remember that a is pronounced as in father, ai as in aisle, e as in prey, ei as in weigh, o as in bore, and u as in rule, or as in boot. Thus, Fukui sounds as if spelled Foo-koo-ee, Benkei as Benkay, Rai as rye, etc.
So, "o ide nasari" (please, honorable one, enter) as they say in Japan.
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