Japanese tales from times past

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The most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature, the KonjakuMonogatari Shu is as integral a part of its nation's culture as Canterbury Talesand The Inferno are of ours. In Japanese Tales from Times Past Japanese Tales from Times Past



This collection of newly translated tales is selected from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature—the Konjaku Monogatari Shu.

This collection of traditional Japanese folklore is akin to the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer or Dante's Inferno—powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking aspects of the cultural psychology, fantasy, and creativity of medieval Japan—tales that still resonate with modern Japanese readers today.

The ninety stories in this book are filled with keen psychological insights, wry sarcasm, and scarcely veiled criticisms of the clergy, nobles, and peasants alike—suggesting that there are, among all classes and peoples, similar failings of pride, vanity, superstition and greed—as well as aspirations toward higher moral goals.

This is the largest collection in English of the Konjaku Monogatari Shu tales ever published in one volume. It presents the low life and the high life, the humble and the devout, the profane flirting, farting and fornicating of everyday men and women, as well as their yearning for the wisdom, transcendence and compassion that are all part and parcel of our shared humanity.

The 90 Stories Include: The Grave of Chopsticks Robbers Come to a Temple and Steal Its Bell The Woman Fish Peddler at the Guardhouse Fish are Turned into the Lotus Sutra A Dragon is Caught by a Tengu Goblin The Monk Tojo Predicts the Fall of Shujaku Gate Wasps Attack a Spider in Revenge

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 augustus 2015

Aantal pagina's: 288

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: naoshi koriyama

Tweede Auteur: Translator (Naoshi) Koriyama

Hoofduitgeverij: Tuttle Publishing

Co Uitgever(s): Tuttle/Periplus

Eerste Vertaler: Naoshi Koriyama

Tweede Vertaler: Bruce Allen

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 127 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 203 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm

Verpakking lengte: 200 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 580 g

EAN: 9784805313411

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