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Japanese tales from times past : stories of fantasy and folklore from the Konjaku monogatari shu : new translations from Japan's most famous collection of folk wisdom by Thornber, Karen; Koriyama, Naoshi; Allen, Bruce is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literaturethe 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 Japantales 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 alikesuggesting that there are, among all classes and peoples, similar failings of pride, vanity, superstition and greedas 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. Stories Include: The Grave of Chopsticks Robbers Come to
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- Author
- Thornber, Karen; Koriyama, Naoshi; Allen, Bruce
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781462917211
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.12 / 5 (24 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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