In the Cat Office, the secretary positions are highly sought after, but the atmosphere among colleagues is tense: The tabby cat cannot get along with the scruffy house cat, and this affects the all-important work: cat history and cat geography. One might think they are among humans. In these stories by four prominent authors of Japanese fairy tale literature, human and cosmos, nature and animal often interact: the earth god with the fox or the moon with the seal mother. The fairy tales from this distant cultural sphere are poetic, often moral, and always enchanting.