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Japanese Tales of Fantasy and Folklore (9784805318645)
The Konjaku Monogatari Shuis a collection of tales from Buddhist and popular Japanese folklore that was compiled in the twelfth century. The stories in this book tell of fearsome demons, tengu goblins, kitsune fox spirits, flying hermits and gods who suddenly appear out of nowhere to rescue foolish humans. There are tales of vengeful animals, robbers, bandits and murderers, as well as ordinary people from all walks of life.
This volume contains the largest collection of Konjaku Monogataristories ever translated into English. It presents the low and the high, the humble and the devout, and the flirting, farting and fornicating of everyday men and women.
The ninety tales in this book include:
- A Clerk from Higo Province Escapes from a Demon's Scheme — A man riding his horse to work loses his way. A woman invites him to rest in her house, promising to help him, but the man soon realizes she is a demon, and flees. He hides in a cave, while the demon woman eats his horse. From deep in the cave comes the voice of another demon, and the man prays to Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, to save him.
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Review
"Naoshi Koriyama and Bruce Allen have repackaged Konjaku Monogatari Shu in a way that both retains the compelling sense of history in these ancient tales and vivifies their relevance to human experience in the twenty-first century. Through well told and carefully translated stories, we become more conscious of who we are and our intricate relationships to the world." --Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA, editor, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"These masterful, elegant translations of ninety extraordinary tales from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu--one of the most valued works of classical Japanese literature--contribute significantly to our understandings of premodern Japanese culture and religion. They also give us an unprecedented glimpse into the daily lives of early Japan's common people, those obscured in the Tale of Genji and other celebrated classics. Most significant in our age of ecological crisis, the Konjaku tales, referencing major ecological transformations of the Japanese countryside, reveal the tensions between religion's spiritual callings to preserve nature and the human need to hunt, fish, and farm to survive." --Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Ha