Konjaku Monogatarishū (今昔物語集, lit. Anthology of Tales from the Past), also known as the Konjaku Monogatari (今昔物語) is a Japanese collection of over one...

classified as setsuwa literature. Following in the footsteps of Konjaku Monogatarishū, it is the representative setsuwa work of the Kamakura period. Summary...

is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira...

encounters a group of a hundred yōkai which pass by the Ryūsenji temple. Konjaku Monogatarishū (今昔物語集), which tells that during the Jōgan era (859–877), the eldest...

is called "onihitokuchi". In Nihon Ryōiki, The Tales of Ise and Konjaku Monogatarishū, for example, a woman is shown being eaten in one mouthful by a...

volumes, starting with publications such as the Nihon Ryōiki and the Konjaku Monogatarishū, and in these publications, mentions of phenomena such as Hyakki...

surrounding Merlin. Many legends of Seimei were originally written in the Konjaku Monogatarishū, and by the Edo period, many stories in circulation focused on his...

Master of Divination In this tale from the medieval collection Konjaku Monogatarishū, an abandoned wife is found dead with a full head of hair intact...

Kujiki, and of that edition, in particular, remain disputed. The Konjaku Monogatarishū, a collection of stories published in the late Heian period, contains...

Brothers) Taiheiki (Chronicle of Great Peace) Anecdotal tales. Konjaku Monogatarishū (Tales of Times Now Past) Uji Shūi Monogatari (A Collection of Tales...