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Monsters, animals, and other worlds : a collection of short medieval Japanese tales / edited by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane.
LIBRA PL777.3 .M66 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Translations from the Asian classics
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Otogi-zōshi.
- Japanese fiction--1185-1600.
- Japanese fiction.
- Japanese prose literature--1185-1600.
- Japanese prose literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 443 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, it illuminates a rich world of literary, visual, and Buddhist culture. Each translation is prefaced by a short introduction, and the book features images from scroll paintings, illustrated manuscripts, and printed books. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Haruo Shirane
- Monsters, Warriors, and Journeys to Other Worlds. Haseo and the Gambling Stranger : Haseo sōshi
- The Tale of the Dirt Spider : Tsuchigumo zōshi
- The Demon Shuten Dōji : Shuten Dōji
- The Demon of Ibuki : Ibuki Dōji
- The Tale of Tawara Tōda : Tawara Tōda monogatari
- The Origins of Hashidate : Hashidate no honji (Bontenkoku)
- The Palace of the Tengu : Tengu no dairi
- Yoshitsune's Island-Hopping : Onzōshi shima-watari
- The Tale of Amewakahiko : Amewakahiko sōshi
- The Origins of the Suwa Deity : Suwa no honji
- Buddhist Tales. The Tale of the Fuji Cave : Fuji no hitoana sōshi
- Isozaki : Isozaki
- The Tale of the Handcart Priest : Kuruma-zō sōshi
- Origins of the Statue of Kannon as a Boy : Chigo Kannon engi
- Little Atsumori : Ko-Atsumori
- The Crone Fleece : Ubakawa
- Interspecies Affairs. The Tale of the Mouse : Nezumi no sōshi
- The Chrysanthemum Spirit : Kiku no sei monogatari (Kazashi no himegimi)
- The Tale of Tamamizu : Tamamizu monogatari
- The Tale of a Wild Goose : Kari no sōshi
- The Stingfish : Okoze
- Lady Tamamo : Tamamo no mae sōshi
- The Tale of the Clam : Hamaguri no sōshi
- The War of the Twelve Animals : Jūnirui kassen emaki
- The Sparrow's Buddhist Awakening : Suzume no hosshin.
- Notes:
- "Translations and introductions by David Atherton, Paul S. Atkins, William Bryant, Kelley Doore, Raechel Dumas, Matthieu Felt, Keller Kimbrough, Melissa McCormick, Rachel Staum Mei, Laura K. Nüffer, Kristopher L. Reeves, Haruo Shirane, Tamara Solomon, Sarah E. Thompson, and Charles Woolley."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780231184465
- 0231184468
- 9780231184472
- 0231184476
- OCLC:
- 994470115
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