The demon at Agi Bridge and other Japanese tales / translated by Burton Watson; edited, with an introduction by Haruo Shirane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Burton, 1925-2017.

Shirane, Haruo, 1951-

Series:

Translations from the Asian classics.

Translations from the Asian classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, Japanese.

Tales--Japan.

Tales.

Japanese literature--To 1600.

Japanese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal literature compiled between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, these dramatic and often amusing stories open a major window onto the foundations of Japanese culture.Out of thousands of setsuwa, Shirane has selected thirty-eight of the most powerful and influentia

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS; INTRODUCTION TOANECDOTAL (SETSUWA) LITERATURE; RECORD OF MIRACULOUS EVENTS IN JAPAN NIHON RYŌIKI; On a Boy of Great Strength Who Was Born of theThunder's Rejoicing (1:3); On the Evil Death Visited Immediately on an Evil and Perverse Son Who, Out of Love for His Wife, Plotted to Kill His Mother (2:3); On Receiving the Immediate Penalty of an Evil Death for Collecting Debts in an Unreasonable Manner and with High Interest (3:26); TALES OF TIMES NOW PAST KONJAKU MONOGATARI SHŪ; Tales from India

How the One-Horned Ascetic Carried a Woman on His Back from the Mountains to the Royal City (5:4)How Three Beasts Practiced the Bodhisattva Way and How the Rabbit Roasted Himself (5:13); How a Lion Showed Pity for a Monkey's Children and Tore Out His Own Flesh for an Eagle (5:14); How a Nine-Colored Deer Came Out of a Mountainand Saved a Man from Drowning (5:18); Tales from China; How Moye of China Made a Sword and Presented It to theKing and How His Son, Broad-of-Brow, Was Killed (9:44); How Wang Zhaojun, Consort of Emperor Yuan of the Han,Went to the Land of the Hu (10:5)

Buddhist Tales of JapanHow a Monk of Dōjō-ji in Kii Province Copied the Lotus Sutraand Brought Salvation to the Snakes (14:3); How Kaya no Yoshifuji of Bitchū Province Became theHusband of a Fox and Was Saved by Kannon (16:17); How Ōe no Sadamoto, Governor of Mikawa,Became a Buddhist Monk (19:2); How a Palace Guard of the Takiguchi Unit Went to Collect GoldDuring the Reign of Emperor Yōzei (20:10); Secular Tales of Japan; How a Child of Fujiwara no Chikakatsu, Having Been Taken Hostage by a Thief, Was Released Through Words Spokenby Yorinobu (25:11)

How Minamoto no Yorinobu's Son Yoriyoshi Shot Downa Horse Thief (25:12)How the Demon at Agi Bridge in Ōmi Province Ate Somebody (27:13); How Ki no Tōsuke of Mino Province Met Female Spiritsand Died (27:21); How a Group of Nuns Went into the Mountains,Ate Some Mushrooms, and Danced (28:28); How Fujiwara no Nobutada, Governor of Shinano,Took a Tumble at Misaka (28:38); How a Thief Climbed to the Upper Story of Rashōmon Gateand Came on a Corpse (29:18); How a Man Was Traveling with His Wife to Tanba andGot Tied Up at Ōeyama (29:23)

How a Poor Man Left His Wife and She Became the Wife of theGovernor of Settsu (30:5)A COLLECTION OF TALES FROM UJI UJI SHŪI MONOGATARI; How Someone Had a Wen Removed by Demons (3); About the Priest with the Long Nose (25); How Yoshihide, a Painter of Buddhist Pictures,Took Pleasure in Seeing His House on Fire (38); How a Sparrow Repaid Its Debt of Gratitude (48); How a Man Received a Bounty After a Period of Prayer at theHase Temple (96); How a Priest Falsely Stated That He Would Drown Himself (133); A COMPANION IN SOLITUDE KANKYO NO TOMO

How a Woman Out of Deep Resentment Changedinto a Demon in Her Present Existence (2:3)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612906350

9781282906358

1282906356

9780231526302

023152630X

OCLC:

798587717