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TALES OF TIMES NOW PAST is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from “Konjaku monogatari shu”, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, because of their informality and unpretentious style, were neglected by Japanese critics until recent years but which now acknowledged to be among the most significant prose literature of premodern Japan. “Konjaku” in particular has aroused the enthusiasm of such leading 20th-century writers as Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro. The stories, with sources in both traditional lore and contemporary gossip, cover an astonishing range - homiletic, sentimental, terrifying, practical-minded, humorous, ribald. Their topics include the life of the Buddha, descriptions of Heaven and Hell, f
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- PublisherUniversity of California Pre
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0520038649
- ISBN 13 9780520038646
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages200
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