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The Jellyfish and the Monkey (くらげ骨なし)

A Japanese Folk Tale

Improve your Japanese reading with the classic folk tale 'The Jellyfish and the Monkey' (くらげ骨なし). This app gives you a side-by-side bilingual reading experience — natural Japanese with its English translation, sentence by sentence.

Follow the story of why the jellyfish has no bones — a clever monkey outwits the Dragon King under the sea. 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'.

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