Issun Boshi

Open until 5pmIndependent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Woodland Mod when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This classic Japanese fairy tale tells the story of Issun Boshi, the tiny son of an old, long childless couple. Tiny and brave--these are the two most striking characteristics of Issun Boshi. His mother had longed to have a child for so many years that she finally added "even if it is a very small one" to her wish. When the elderly couple did in fact bear a son, he turned out to be only one inch high. He was thus called Issun Boshi, Japanese for one-inch boy. Although his parents raised him very