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Tales of Tears and Laughter
Short Fiction of Medieval Japan
Virginia Skord
University of Hawaii Press · Print & ebook · August 1, 1993
Reading lane: Japanese Literary Collections
The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi.
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- Authors
- Virginia Skord
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Published
- August 1, 1993
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Japanese Literary Collections · Japanese Literary Criticism
- Reading lane
- Japanese Literary Collections
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Japanese History
Japanese Literary Collections
Japanese Literary Criticism
About This Book
The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi. They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all the possibilities and contradictions of the age.
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