Once attributed to the itinerant poet-priest Saigyo (1118-1190), The Senjusho is a collection of Buddhist tales (bukkyo setsu-washu) from the early Kamakura period (1185-1333). Students of Japanese history, liter- ature, and religion will find much of interest in this translation based on the Matsudaira text.

The Otogibōko is a collection of 65 fictional tales -written in 1666 by Asai Ryōi (d. 1691), an acclaimed writer of kanazōshi (prose literature). Asai adopted most of these stories from Chinese and Korean texts and then shaped them for the Otogibōko's didactic Buddhist framework. In some tales he replaced historical contexts and names of places and people with ones familiar to his Japanese contemporaries. Asai embellished the Otogibōko with waka poems, giving it an elegance reminiscent of Heian-period romantic fiction. With this new English translation of the...

Contains translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish, the largest story collection in Japan, dating from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand tales of India, China, and Japan.

Provides translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish?, the largest story collection in Japan, dating from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand tales of India, China, and Japan.

Contains translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish, the largest story collection in Japan, dating from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand tales of India, China, and Japan.