The Otogiboko

324 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Otogib¿ko is a collection of 65 fictional tales ­written in 1666 by Asai Ry¿i (d. 1691), an acclaimed writer of kanaz¿shi (prose literature). Asai adopted most of these stories from Chinese and Korean texts and then shaped them for the Otogib¿ko's didactic Buddhist framework. In some tales he replaced historical contexts and names of places and people with ones familiar to his Japanese contemporaries. Asai embellished the Otogib¿ko with waka poems, giving it an elegance reminiscent of Heian-period romantic fiction. With this new English translation of the Otogib¿ko, today's readers can enjoy the later work of Japan's finest writer of kanaz¿shi. The Otogib¿ko will be of interest to scholars of Edo-period history and religion and to folklorists.

• ISBN: 9780917880056
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2014
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Übersetzung: Yoshiko Dykstra