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Index
Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on the Translations
Introduction to Anecdotal ( Setsuwa ) Literature
Record of Miraculous Events in Japan
( Nihon ryōiki )
On a Boy of Great Strength Who Was Born of the Thunder’s Rejoicing (1:3)
On the Evil Death Visited Immediately on an Evil and Perverse Son Who, Out of Love for His Wife, Plotted to Kill His Mother (2:3)
On Ransoming Some Crabs and a Frog and Setting Them Free, She Was Immediately Rewarded by Being Saved by the Crabs (2:12)
On Receiving the Immediate Penalty of an Evil Death for Collecting Debts in an Unreasonable Manner and with High Interest (3:26)
Tales of Times Now Past
( Konjaku monogatari shū )
Tales from India
How the One-Horned Ascetic Carried a Woman on His Back from the Mountains to the Royal City (5:4)
How Three Beasts Practiced the Bodhisattva Way and How the Rabbit Roasted Himself (5:13)
How a Lion Showed Pity for a Monkey’s Children and Tore Out His Own Flesh for an Eagle (5:14)
How a Nine-Colored Deer Came Out of a Mountain and Saved a Man from Drowning (5:18)
Tales from China
How Moye of China Made a Sword and Presented It to the King and How His Son, Broad-of-Brow, Was Killed (9:44)
How Wang Zhaojun, Consort of Emperor Yuan of the Han, Went to the Land of the Hu (10:5)
Buddhist Tales of Japan
How a Monk of Dōjō-ji in Kii Province Copied the Lotus Sutra and Brought Salvation to the Snakes (14:3)
How Kaya no Yoshifuji of Bitchū Province Became the Husband of a Fox and Was Saved by Kannon (16:17)
How Ōe no Sadamoto, Governor of Mikawa, Became a Buddhist Monk (19:2)
How a Palace Guard of the Takiguchi Unit Went to Collect Gold During the Reign of Emperor Yōzei (20:10)
Secular Tales of Japan
How a Child of Fujiwara no Chikakatsu, Having Been Taken Hostage by a Thief, Was Released Through Words Spoken by Yorinobu (25:11)
How Minamoto no Yorinobu’s Son Yoriyoshi Shot Down a Horse Thief (25:12)
How the Demon at Agi Bridge in Ōmi Province Ate Somebody (27:13)
How Ki no Tōsuke of Mino Province Met Female Spirits and Died (27:21)
How a Group of Nuns Went into the Mountains, Ate Some Mushrooms, and Danced (28:28)
How Fujiwara no Nobutada, Governor of Shinano, Took a Tumble at Misaka (28:38)
How a Thief Climbed to the Upper Story of Rashōmon Gate and Came on a Corpse (29:18)
How a Man Was Traveling with His Wife to Tanba and Got Tied Up at Ōeyama (29:23)
How a Poor Man Left His Wife and She Became the Wife of the Governor of Settsu (30:5)
A Collection of Tales from Uji
( Uji shūi monogatari )
How Someone Had a Wen Removed by Demons (3)
About the Priest with the Long Nose (25)
How Yoshihide, a Painter of Buddhist Pictures, Took Pleasure in Seeing His House on Fire (38)
How a Sparrow Repaid Its Debt of Gratitude (48)
How a Man Received a Bounty After a Period of Prayer at the Hase Temple (96)
How a Priest Falsely Stated That He Would Drown Himself (133)
A Companion in Solitude
( Kankyo no tomo )
How a Woman Out of Deep Resentment Changed into a Demon in Her Present Existence (2:3)
How a Court Lady of Royal Birth Demonstrated the Foulness of Her Bodily Form (2:9)
A Collection of Things Written and Heard in the Past and Present
( Kokon chomonjū )
How Saeki Ujinaga Met Ooiko, a Very Strong Woman of Takashima, and of Ooiko’s Earlier Display of Great Strength in Water Disputes (15:377)
How a Samurai Who Served Lord Kazan’in Tadatsune, Minister of the Right, Won at Gambling and Received the Tonsure Thanks to His Wife (18:423)
How a Man Called Umanojō Shot a Male Mandarin Duck in Akanuma in Michinoku Province and Then Received the Tonsure (30:713)
Tales of Renunciation
( Senjūshō )
The Venerable Zōga (1:1)
The Woman of Pleasure at Eguchi (9:8)
Collection of Sand and Pebbles
( Shasekishū )
The Scholar Who Loved Poetry (5:11)
The Deep Meaning Underlying the Way of Japanese Poetry (5:12)
Bibliography of Translations and Studies in Western Languages
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