The Dream Egg and Other Stories

A young prince longs to catch a dream and discovers a golden bird in an ancient forest. A horse driver takes pity on a stranded devil’s child, with astonishing consequences. In a peaceful mountain village, a visitor with a remarkable nose joins the children’s face-making game.

The Dream Egg and Other Stories brings together three fairy tales and one story for adult readers by Toyoshima Yoshio. The tales preserve the storyteller’s warmth, humor, and sudden transformations, while allowing their strange promises to remain open.

In Kindness, a struggling artist repays a loan to a gravely ill friend. What seems a simple act of gratitude becomes tangled with artistic obligation, pride, and the fear of death. A nurse’s conviction and the light of morning offer a different way through the impasse.