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Tales of tears and laughter: short fiction of medieval Japan

Tales of tears and laughter: short fiction of medieval Japan
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ISBN 0824815696 (pbk.)
9780824815691 (pbk.)
Title Tales of tears and laughter : short fiction of medieval Japan / translated by Virginia Skord
Publisher Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1991
Physical desc. vi, 222 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 22 cm.
Note Paperback ed. 1993.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222).
Contents Introduction -- A discretionary tale (Otonashi sōshi) -- The cat's tale (Neko no sōshi) -- Old Lady Tokiwa (Tokiwa no uba) -- The mirror man (Kagami otoko emaki) -- A tale of brief slumbers (Utatane no sōshi) -- The tale of Ikago (Ikago monogatari) -- The tale of the brazier (Hioke no sōshi) -- The little man (Ko otoko no sōshi) -- The tale of Dōjōji (Dōjōji monogatari) -- The king of farts (Fukutomi chōja monogatari) -- A tale of two nursemaids (Menoto no sōshi) -- Lazy Tarō (Monogusa Tarō) -- The errand woman (Oyō no ama).
Subject Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English
Japanese fiction -- 1185-1600 -- Translations into English
Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Added name(s) Skord, Virginia S. ed.
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