Abstract
"Reading fairy tales from the world over, one is struck time and again by a feeling of déjà lu or déjà entendu," says Maria Tatar in The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, because, she declares, fairy tales have a "persistent thematic and structural uniformity" (63-64). In the Japanese fairy tale, Hachi-kazuki-hime (The Princess Who Wore a Bowl), the reader can see many features characteristic of European tales as well and can experience "a feeling of déjà lu or déjà entendu" reading it. If closely compared with European tales, however, Hachi-kazuki-hime shows many Japanese motifs and icons that do not appear in European tales. Can the story of Hachi-kazuki-hime offer evidence that fairy tales of the world consistently have a "persistent thematic and structural uniformity"?
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