Otogi-zōshi (御伽草子) are a group of about 350 Japanese prose narratives written primarily in the Muromachi period (1392–1573). These illustrated short stories...

Otogi-zōshi (お伽草紙) is a Japanese collection of short stories by Osamu Dazai. In this work, the author is giving the reader a reinterpretation of classic...

Otogi Zoshi (お伽草子, Otogizōshi, lit. Fairy-Tale Book) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G. A manga adaptation was published...

Rashōmon (羅生門) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in two books, likely composed around the middle of the Muromachi period. Rashōmon was probably composed around...

end of the Kamakura period, it is in the illustration movement of Otogi-zōshi (otogi meaning "to tell stories") that emakimono developed a new popular...

(浦島太郎) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in one volume. Urashima Tarō was composed during the Muromachi period. It is a work of the otogi-zōshi genre. Most of the...

son of Amatsukunitama. The Ame no Wakahiko Monogatari [ja], one of the Otogi-zōshi, is a monogatari about him. The name Ame no Wakahiko means "a young boy...

Later the medieval novella Kitsune zōshi (or Kitsune no sōshi) appeared, which may be included in the Otogi-zōshi genre under the broader definition,...

Tarō otogi-zōshi extant. These variants fall into four broad groups, clustered by their similarity. The Otogi Bunko text belongs to Group IV. The Otogi Bunko...

into the corpus of Otogi-zōshi ("Companion tales"), and became widely read in the woodblock-printed versions of them called the Otogi Bunko (Companion Library)...