The Way of the Bow and Arrow. The Japanese Warrior in Konjaku Monogatari

Wilson, William Ritchie

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“…Longer studies and collections of translations in Western languages include: Marian Ury's Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection (Ury [1979(Ury [ ] 1993, which introduces the four major sections of Konjaku including the "Tales of China" section with a page of summary and analysis; Robert H. Brower's (1952) doctoral dissertation, The Konzyaku monogatarisy: An Historical and Critical Introduction, with Annotated Translations of Seventy-eight Tales;Bernard Frank's (1968) Histoires qui sont maintenant du passé; two collections of selected translations into German by Satoshi Tsukakoshi (1956) andby Horst Hammitzsch et al (1965); S. W. Jones's (Jones 1959) Ages Ago: Thirty-Seven Tales from the Konjaku monogatari Collection; Hiroko Kobayashi's (1979) The Human Comedy of Heian Japan: A Study of the Secular Stories in the Twelfth-Century Collection of Tales, Konjaku monogatarishū. There are also a number of English articles, such as (Mori 1982;Wilson 1973;Kelsey 1975).…”

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Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū

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2023

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Tales of Times Now Past (Konjaku Monogatarishū 今昔物語集) is a Japanese setsuwa (anecdotes) collection dating from the early twelfth century. Originally contained in 31 volumes, it includes more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. Despite the fact that Daoism was rejected by the Japanese imperial court as an organized religion, Daoist philosophies and practical systems found their ways into Japan, having a significant and profound influence over Japanese esoteric cosmology and folk beliefs. This article takes the Lord of Mount Tai (CN: Taishan Fujun; JP: Taizan Fukun 泰山府君) as the focus and examines two pertinent stories in Tales of Times Now Past. By placing the texts in a broader historical, religious, and comparative Japan–China perspective, I examine the reshaping of Daoist elements and traditional Chinese philosophical principles in these two stories and thus demonstrate how the Daoist fragments transmitted to Japan were transformed into an integral part of the orthodox structure by the time of the late Heian period in the pursuit of a more organized form of government.

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Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū

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The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

Shirane¹,

Suzuki²,

Lurie³

2015

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The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.

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Shirane¹

2015

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

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