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Title:
The demon at Agi Bridge and other Japanese tales
Author:
Watson, Burton, 1925-
ISBN:
9780231526302
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 156 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Translations from the Asian classics

Translations from the Asian classics.
Abstract:
Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal literature compiled between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, these dramatic and often amusing stories open a major window onto the foundations of Japanese culture. Out of thousands of setsuwa, Shirane has selected thirty-eight of the most powerful a.
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