TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,S.W.
TI  - Ages Ago: Thirty-Seven Tales from the ‹i›Konjaku Monogatari‹/i› Collection
SN  - 9780674181359
AV  - PZ1.K8365 
U1  - 895.63082 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Literatur in anderen Sprachen
KW  - Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674181366
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674181366
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674181366/original
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