Traditional Japanese Literature by Shirane, Haruo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half title Series Page Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Historical Periods and Key Terms Introduction

Language and Writing Power and Courtship Loss and Integration Sociality Condensation and Intertextuality Attachment and Detachment Performance and Narration

Chapter 1. The Ancient Period

The Beginnings of Japanese Literature Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters)

The Beginning Solidifying the Land Visit to the Land of Yomi Susano-o and Amaterasu Susano-o Slays the Eight-Tailed Serpent Luck of the Sea and Luck of the Mountain Yamato the Brave

Man’yōshū (Collection of Myriad Leaves)

First Period

Emperor Yūryaku

Your Basket, with Your Lovely Basket

Emperor Jomei

Climbing Mount Kagu and Looking upon the Land

Lady Nukata

On Spring and Autumn

Second Period

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

The Lament for Prince Kusakabe The Yoshino Praise Poems The Lament for Prince Takechi Poems on Passing the Ruined Capital of Ōmi Poems on Parting from His Wife in Iwami Poems on the Death of His Wife The Lament for Princess Asuka

Third Period

Yamabe no Akahito

On Looking at Mount Fuji

Yamanoue no Okura

Dialogue with the Impoverished On Thinking of Children Poem on Departing a Banquet

Chapter 2. The Heian Period

The Emergence of Kana Literature The Rise of Women’s Writing Late Heian Kana Histories and Anecdotal Literature Keikai

Record of Miraculous Events in Japan (Nihon ryōiki)

On the Death Penalty in This Life for an Evil Son Who Tried to Kill His Mother out of Love for His Wife On the Immediate Reward of Being Saved by Crabs for Saving the Lives of Crabs and a Frog On Receiving the Immediate Penalty of Violent Death for Collecting Debts by Force and with High Interest

Ono no Komachi

Selected Poems

Sugawara no Michizane

Children

Speaking of My Children

Career

Through the Snow to Morning Duties Professorial Difficulties

Exile

Seeing the Plum Blossoms When Sentenced to Exile Autumn Night, the Fifteenth Day of the Ninth Month In Exile, Spring Snow

Kokinshū (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems)

The Kana Preface

Spring Summer Autumn Travel Love Mourning Miscellaneous Topics Miscellaneous Forms

The Birth of Vernacular Prose Fiction

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori monogatari)

The Bamboo Cutter The Suitors The Stone Begging-Bowl of the Buddha The Easy-Delivery Charm of the Swallows The Imperial Hunt The Celestial Robe of Feathers

The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Journey to the Eastern Provinces The Imperial Huntsman Nagisa-no-in In the Shade of Wisteria Blooms Rain Test Deep Grasses The Road All Must Travel

Sei Shōnagon

The Pillow Book (Makura no sōshi)

In Spring It Is the Dawn The Cat Who Lived in the Palace The Sliding Screen in the Back of the Hall Depressing Things Hateful Things Rare Things Embarrassing Things Things That Give a Hot Feeling Things That Have Lost Their Power Awkward Things Adorable Things Pleasing Things One Day, When the Snow Lay Thick on the Ground This Book

Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

The Lady at the Bridge Beneath the Oak Trefoil Knots A Boat upon the Waters At Writing Practice

Daughter of Takasue

Sarashina Diary (Sarashina nikki)

Heian Literati

Literary Essence of Our Country (Honchō monzui)

Yoshishige no Yasutane

“Record of a Pond Pavilion” (Chiteiki)

Late Heian and Early Kamakura Monogatari

The Stories of the Riverside Middle Counselor (Tsutsumi chūnagon monogatari)

The Lady Who Preferred Insects

The Mirror of the Present (Imakagami)

The Progress of Fiction

Collection of Tales of Times Now Past (Konjaku monogatari shū)

Tales from India

How the One-Horned Immortal Carried a Woman from the Mountains to the Palace

Tales from China

How Wang Zhaojun, Consort of the Han Emperor Yuan, Went to the Land of Hu

Buddhist Tales from Japan

How a Monk of the Dōjōjí in the Province of Kii Copied the Lotus Sutra and Brought Salvation to Serpents How Kaya no Yoshifuji, of Bitchū Province, Became the Husband of a Fox and Was Saved by Kannon

Secular Tales from Japan

How a Thief Climbed to the Upper Story of Rashōmon Gate and Saw a Corpse How a Man Who Was Accompanying His Wife to Tanba Province Got Trussed Up at Ōeyama

Chapter 3. The Kamakura Period

The Samurai and Literature The Spread of Buddhism and the Way of the Gods The Aristocracy and Literature The Priesthood and Literature Saigyō

Selected Poems

Fujiwara no Teika

Essentials of Poetic Composition (Eiga no taigai)

Shinkokinshū (New Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems)

Spring Summer Autumn Winter Mourning Travel Love Miscellaneous Topics

Recluse Literature (Sōan bungaku)

Kamo no Chōmei

An Account of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut (Hōjōki) Tales of Awakening (Hosshinshū)

Rengejō’s Suicide by Drowning

Anecdotes (Setsuwa)

A Collection of Tales from Uji (Uji shūi monogatari)

How Someone Had a Wen Removed by Demons About the Priest with the Long Nose How Yoshihide, a Painter of Buddhist Pictures, Took Pleasure in Seeing His House on Fire How a Sparrow Repaid Its Debt of Gratitude

Tales of Renunciation (Senjūshō)

The Venerable Zōga The Woman of Pleasure at Eguchi

Warrior Tales (Gunki-mono)

The Tales of the Heike (Heike monogatari)

The Bells of Gion Monastery Kiyomori’s Flowering Fortunes Giō The Burning of Nara The Death of Kiyomori Tadanori Leaves the Capital The Death of Lord Kiso The Death of Atsumori The Drowning of the Former Emperor The Move to Ōhara The Death of the Imperial Lady

Travel Diaries

Lady Nijō

The Confessions of Lady Nijō (Towazugatari)

Book 1

Kenkō

Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)

Preface If the Dews of Adashino Never Faded Leading the Heart Astray Beautiful Hair, of All Things A Proper Dwelling Changing of the Seasons World as Unstable as the Asuka River When I Sit Down in Quiet Meditation To Be Governed by a Desire for Fame and Profit A House Should Be Built for Summer Determined to Take the Great Step Gathering Like Ants Are We to Look at Cherry Blossoms Only in Full Bloom?

Chapter 4. The Muromachi Period

The Patronage of the Ashikaga Zen and Samurai Culture The Rise of Provincial Culture Nō Drama

Theatrical Elements

Lady Aoi (Aoi no ue) Stupa Komachi (Sotoba Komachi) Pining Wind (Matsukaze) Atsumori Shrine in the Fields (Nonomiya)

Comic Theater (Kyōgen)

Delicious Poison (Busu)

Linked Verse (Renga)

Sōgi

East Country Dialogues (Azuma mondō) Three Poets at Minase (Minase sangin hyakuin)

Muromachi Tales (Otogi-zōshi)

Lazy Tarō (Monogusa Tarō)