Kobutori Jiisan

Improve your Japanese reading with the classic folk tale 'How an Old Man Lost His Wen' (こぶとり爺さん). This app gives you a side-by-side bilingual reading experience — natural Japanese with its English translation, sentence by sentence. Follow the story of a cheerful old man who dances with the oni at night and loses the lump on his cheek. With built-in vocabulary lookups, audio, and furigana-style readings, it's a perfect way to practise reading Japanese while enjoying a timeless tale. Part of a growing collection of Japanese folk tales, drawn from the classic Gutenberg edition of Ozaki's 'Japanese Fairy Tales'.