The Stonecutter — East Asia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Japan, where a weary stonecutter wishes himself into every form of power he can imagine—from wealth and royalty to sun, cloud, wind, and mountain—until one familiar sound reveals a strength he had overlooked.
Source & tradition: Japanese-attributed tale “The Stone-cutter,” published in Andrew Lang’s The Crimson Fairy Book (1903), where it was adapted from David Brauns’s Japanische Märchen und Sagen (1885). Original prose retelling.
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