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Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies: Tales of Times Now Past : Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection by Marian Ury (1993, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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Publication Date: 1993-08-01. Number of Pages: 216. Weight: 0.65 lbs. ISBN10: 0939512610. ISBN13: 9780939512614.

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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 are 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, feats of warriors, craftsmen, and musicians, unsuspected vice, virtue, and ingenuity, and the ways and wiles of bandits, ogres, and proverbially greedy provincial governors, to name just a few. Composed perhaps a century after the refined, allusive, aristocratic Tale of Genji , Konjaku represents a masculine outlook and comparatively plebeian social orientation, standing in piquant contrast to the earlier masterpiece. The unknown compiler was interested less in exploring psychological subtleties than in presenting vivid portraits of human foibles and eccentricities. The stories in the present selection have been chosen to provide an idea of the scope and structure of the book as a whole, and also for their appeal to the modern reader. And the translation is based on the premise that the most faithful rendering is also the liveliest.

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University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN-10
0939512610
ISBN-13
9780939512614
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Author
Marian Ury
Publication Name
Tales of Times Now Past : Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Publication Year
1993
Series
Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
216 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz

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Series Volume Number
9
Lc Classification Number
Pl787.K6 E5 1993
Edition Description
Reprint
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Folklore & Mythology, General, Europe / Medieval
Lccn
93-023945
Dewey Decimal
895.6/31/08
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
History, Social Science, Fiction

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