Japanese Fairy Tales

[angeliz378]

Have any Japanese Fairy Tales ever been reference in Anime and/or Manga? I recalled Momotaro was spoofed by an Anime OVA os Super Mario Bros, but that's it. I see more Western Fairy Tales than Eastern(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has to be one of the worse offenders of this).

 

[jay_naguit]

Early Japanese Features, especially the ones made by Toei, were almost completely composed of adaptions of Japanese fairy tales.

 

[Nami Cullen]

Pom Poko counts, as it includes reference of all kinRAB of Japanese folklore. Doraemon does it too occasionally.

 

[strawberrycake]

Tail of the Moon is based on one I believe. The baby in the corn stalk or something like that...

 

[maraj191]

A lot of elements of Sailor Moon are inspired by japanese mythology and fairy tales. The idea of the Moon Kingdom and Moon Princess comes from the Tale of the Baraboo Cutter. Princess Kaguya, the villain from the second movie is also named after a character in this story. Another character named Princess Kaguya is the villain of an Inuyasha movie (can't remeraber which one)

I remeraber an episode of SM where the monster-of-the-week was a snake-woman haunting a lake. I think it was inspired by the story of Kiyohime.

In Sailor Moon, the weapons of the outer Senshi (the sword, the mirror and the jewel) are based on the three sacred treasures of the Imperial Regalia.