Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is loosely based on a story by a man who had what nationality?
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: "Nussknacker und Mausekönig" ) is a story written in 1816 by German author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story into the ballet "The Nutcracker", which became one of Tchaikovsky's most famous compositions, and perhaps the most popular ballet in the world.
Hanasaka Jiisan Hanasaka Jiisan (花咲か爺さん ) , also called Hanasaka Jiijii (花咲か爺 ) , is a Japanese folk tale. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford collected it in "Tales of Old Japan" (1871), as "The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Blossom". Rev. David Thomson translated it as "The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom" for Hasegawa Takejirō's "Japanese Fairy Tale Series" (1885). Andrew Lang included it, as "The Envious Neighbor", in "The Violet Fairy Book" (1901), listing his source as "Japanische Marchen".