The White Hare of Inaba

Improve your Japanese reading with the classic folk tale 'The White Hare of Inaba' (因幡の白兎). 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 clever white hare who tricks the crocodiles and is healed by a kind god. 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'.