Fairy Tale of the Mountain: Wind's Ice Skates

Author: Yoko Kageyama (Japan) Peng Yi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Yoko Kageyama creates a beautiful artistic world, where her works are filled with strange fantasies. Amidst sweet fantasies, there lingers a faint sorrow, allowing readers to feel the poetry of life in the melancholic, ethereal, and dreamlike words. Yoko Kageyama excels at seamlessly intertwining the real world with the realm of fantasy, using stories of fantasy to reflect the realities of life. Common themes in Yoko Kageyama's works include solitude, tenderness, nostalgia, and love. The author explores a profound question—what truly is a human being? The Mountain Folktales: The Wind's Ice Skates tells a magical story between humans and animals. The author blends fantasy and reality, imagining endlessly, filled with a sense of childhood wonder, and was awarded the 3rd Japan New Michio Shiga Children's Literature Award. The tea house owner, Shigeru, was smoking bacon by the forest. A yellow weasel snatched a piece and dashed away, as fast as the wind. Hey, it turns out he was wearing magical ice skates made of the wind. Shigeru put on the Wind's Ice Skates and chased after him, and in the end, he actually caught up to the seaside.