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Summary:

"This collection of translated stories from the classic work of Japanese medieval literature, the "Konjaku Monogatari shu", contains powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking aspects of the imagination, fantasy, and creativeness of the Japanese. The ninety stories contain psychological insight, wry sarcasm, and barely veiled criticisms of the doings of clergy, nobles, and peasants alike, suggesting that there are, among all classes and peoples, similar susceptibilities to pride, vanity, superstition, and greed--as well as aspirations toward higher moral goals. This is the largest selection from the "Konjaku Monogatari shu" ever gathered together in one volume. It presents the low life and the high, the humble and the devout; the drinking, flirting, farting and fornicating, as well as the yearning for wisdom, transcendence and compassion that are all part and of our shared human nature."-- [Provided by publisher]

Contributors:

Kōriyama, Naoshi, 1926- , translator

Allen, Bruce, 1949- , translator

Thornber, Karen Laura , writer of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Japanese tales from times past: stories of fantasy and folklore from the Konjaku monogatari shu

Subjects:

Folk literature, Japanese — Translations into English

Japanese literature — Heian period, 794-1185 — Translations into English

Buddhist legends — Translations into English

Japan — Social life and customs — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PL787.K62 E5 20015eb

ISBNs:

9781462917211 (electronic bk.)
1462917216 (electronic bk.)
9784805313411 (paperback) [Invalid]
4805313412 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

948752935

Other Control Numbers:

EBC2039651 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12411390