Day XI: お月さまに化けたタヌキ
All the talk of tanukis made me want to read some tanuki legends/tales. I managed to find a site (googling in Japanese is pretty hard), kinda looks like it’s for kids but oh well, I’ve had a lot of fun reading. Also, what is it with most Japanese sites looking like they’ve come straight out of 1999?
「6月21日の日本の昔話」seems I’m a little late, but… (bit of a side track here)
Looking around site there’s a story for each day of the year, some of them have audio recordings of the actual story as well (!!). Sadly, the moon tanuki doesn’t have a recording for it, but this is great! Definitely going to use it again and practice listening as well as reading. whoa this is amazing.
むかしむかし
(I am loving this so much already)
「はて？ おいら、酔っぱらったかな？」 
ウサギが餅つきをしている影がありません。
Aha, I see farmer-san, that you know the secret password to the arcade (almost).
正体を現したな、いたずらダヌキめ！
やい、馬鹿百姓。
Gee tanuki, don’t be so mean!
…I probably had a lot more fun with this than I really should have. 