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

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