Ages Ago : Thirty-Seven Tales from the Konjaku Monogatari Collection.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, S. W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literatur in anderen Sprachen.

Short stories, Japanese--Translations into English.

Local Subjects:

Short stories, Japanese--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

TALES OF INDIA

1. Vakkula's Good Deed

2. King Prasenajit's Daughter Vajra the Deformed

3. How Preceptor Bodhidharma Toured India Observing the Acts of Monks

4. How a Poor Woman in India Got the Lotus Sutra Copied

5. How Three Beasts Practiced the Bodhisattva Discipline and the Hare Roasted Itself

6. How Lion's Pity for Monkey's Young Made Him Cut a Chunk Off Himself for Eagle

7. How in India a Fox Passed for Beast King and Died of Riding a Lion

8. How Tortoise, Heedless of Crane's Warning, Fell to Earth and Got a Cracked Shell

9. How Tortoise Was Outwitted by Monkey

10. Where Persons Over Seventy Were Deported

TALES OF CHINA

11. How Under Emperor Ming of the Later-Han Dynasty Buddhism Crossed to China

12. How Under Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty Bodhidharma Crossed to China

13. How Chinese Meng Tsung's Filial Piety Got His Old Mother Bamboo Shoots in Winter

14. How Chinese Han Po-yü When Beaten by His Mother Wept for Grief

15. How T'ang Emperor Hsüan-tsung's Yang Kuei-fei Was Killed by His Majesty's Favor

16. How Knight Confucius While Traveling Met Boys Who Quizzed Him

17. When Chuang-tzu Observed the Doings of Animals and Took to His Heels

18. How a Woman of Ch'ang-an Changed Pillows with Her Husband and Was Killed by His Enemy

TALES OF JAPAN

19. The Might of Assistant High Priest Jitsu-in of Hieizan

20. Wrestler Umi Tsuneyo's Match with a Snake

21. How Wrestler Kisaichi Munehira Tossed a Blue Shark

22. How a Man Bounced His Sword-Sheath Rod on a Fingernail and a Woman Her Needle

23. When Kudara Kawanari and Hida Takumi Competed

24. How a Lady Went to a Master of Medicine, Was Cured of a Boil, and Slipped Off

25. How a Man's Wife Became a Vengeful Ghost and How Her Malignity Was Diverted by a Master of Divination

26. When Emperor Murakami and Sugawara Fumitoki Each Composed a Chinese Poem

27. How Taira Koremochi Had a Retainer Killed on Him

28. How an East-Bound Traveler Fathered a Child by a Turnip

29. How in Mimasaka Province a God Was Trapped by a Hunter and Living Sacrifice Stopped

30. How Mikawa Province Originated Dog's-Head Silk

31. How the Reizei-in Water Spirit Assumed Human Form and Was Caught

32. How Ki Tösuke's Meeting with a Ghost-Woman in Mino Province Ended in His Death

33. How Ex-Emperor En-yü's Rat-Day Was Attended by Sone Yoshitada

34. When Chikuzen-Governor Fujiwara Akiie's Samurai Forgot Himself

35. How in Mutsu Province a Dog-and-Mountain Dog Bit to Death a Big Snake

36. Tsunekiyo Yasunaga's Fuha-Barrier Dream about His Wife at the Capital

37. Two Brothers Plant Day-Lilies and Asters

Background Points

Sources and Related Texts

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18136-0

OCLC:

1013946600