• Setsuwa (Japanese: 説話, romanized: setsu wa) is a Japanese literary genre. It consists of myths, legends, folktales, and anecdotes. Among the setsuwa, those...
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  • Uji Shūi Monogatari (category Setsuwa)
    work is classified as setsuwa literature. Following in the footsteps of Konjaku Monogatarishū, it is the representative setsuwa work of the Kamakura period...
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  • of feminine beauty".: 43  He also draws parallels with the vernacular setsuwa tradition and anecdotes told of Fujiwara Munesuke, the bee-keeping minister...
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  • Nihon Ryōiki (category Setsuwa)
    early Heian period setsuwa collection. Written by Kyōkai between 787 and 824, it is Japan's oldest collection of Buddhist setsuwa. It is three volumes...
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    considered to be a humorous story in setsuwa. The Konjaku Monogatarishū and the Uji Shūi Monogatari were setsuwa collections compiled from the Heian period...
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    of beauty" (美人説話, bijin-setsuwa) "tales of sensuality" (好色説話, kōshoku-setsuwa) "tales of haughtiness" (驕慢説話, kyōman-setsuwa) "tales of poetry/poetic...
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    period (794–1185), oni were often depicted in Japanese literature, such as setsuwa, as terrifying monsters that ate people. A prominent depiction of oni is...
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    Onihitokuchi (鬼一口) refers to a Japanese setsuwa (legend) in which oni (ogres) eat humans in one mouthful. This in turn refers to something extremely dangerous...
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    (鬼童丸, 鬼同丸) is an oni that appears in the Kamakura period collection of setsuwa, the Kokon Chomonjū, among other sources. As described in the Kokon Chomonjū...
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    Japanese), 34 (8): 1–10 —— (1967), "Kobunken wo kiso to shita Momotarō setsuwa no kenkyū (I)" 古文献を基礎とした 桃太郎説話の研究(上) [A Study of "Momotaro" : Based on...
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    Monogatari (Japanese: 物語, [monoɡaꜜtaɾi]) is a literary form in traditional Japanese literature – an extended prose narrative tale comparable to epic literature...
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    Japanese] (1992). "Dai-2 shō. Kitsune no Atai setsuwa (jō 2 kan)" 第二章狐の直説話(上2巻). Nihon ryōiki setsuwa no kenkyū 日本霊異記説話の研究 (in Japanese). Tokyo: Ōfūsha...
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    creation of standalone setsuwa works. In the Nanbokuchō period, there was the Yoshino Shūi [ja], a collection of uta monogatari-type setsuwa about poets tied...
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    literary genre called setsuwa ("informative narration") goes back to orally transmitted myths, legends, folktales, and anecdotes. Setsuwa comprise the oldest...
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    scene of the crossing. The story originally appeared in two collections of setsuwa or tales, Dainihonkoku hokekyō kenki (c. 1040) and Konjaku Monogatarishū...
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  • Monogatarishū (12th century) contain a number of a type of tales called setsuwa, a generic term for narratives of various nature, anything from moralizing...
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    folklore, there are large cats that attack humans. At the same time, in the setsuwa collection Kokon Chomonjū, in the story "Kankyō Hōin (観教法印)", an old cat...
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    literature date back to the Kamakura period (1185–1333). In the collection of setsuwa (oral tradition of folktales before the 14th century), the Kokon Chomonjū...
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  • (19): 25 Myung (1992), p. 71. Jo, Sulseob 曹述燮 (2005), "Ryū no kiki to sono setsuwa-teki tenkai:Gensei daiō oyobi Shinsei jodaiō/Gotaji jō wo chūshin ni"...
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    or linked verse, and Noh theater developed among the common people, and setsuwa such as the Nihon Ryoiki were created by Buddhist priests for preaching...
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  • Konjaku Monogatarishū (category Setsuwa)
    tales from the Konjaku include Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Hori Tatsuo. The setsuwa ("spoken story") in Konjaku Monogatari Shū has two main purposes: religious...
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    of unknown true form. The noh play Nue, by Zeami Motokiyo, based on the setsuwa, the Heike Monogatari. They are a regular feature of the Kiri-noh (fifth...
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  • it in a vacant field), and the moral of this Buddhist sermon-type tale (setsuwa) is that this is no treasure after all. In The Tale of Heike is an anecdote...
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    Kyonran (1998-10-01), "Nikkan ni okeru denshō no arikata: Sayohime setsuwa to Jesan setsuwa" 日・韓における伝承のあり方 ―「さよひめ」説話と「堤上(ジェサン)」説話― [Down the Generations in...
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    a snow spirit or the spirit of a woman who fell over in the snow. In a setsuwa of the Oguni region of Yamagata Prefecture, a yuki-jorō (yuki-onna) was...
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    inscription in Persian for Myōe. In 1222, Keisei composed a collection of setsuwa entitled Kankyo no Tomo (Companion of a Quiet Life, or Companion in Solitude)...
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    with Japan, and so they turned their attention to Bai Juyi’s poetry. A setsuwa in the Keiranshūyōshū (渓嵐拾葉集) by Kōshu (光宗) identifies Yang Guifei’s palace...
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  • Kokon Chomonjū (category Setsuwa)
    Collection of Notable Tales Old and New, is a Kamakura-period collection of setsuwa. It was compiled by Tachibana Narisue (橘成季) and completed in 1254. The...
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  • Koshikibu (beppon) (小式部(別本)) in Japanese. It is one of a number of medieval setsuwa-type works whose protagonist is the Heian-era waka poet Koshikibu no Naishi...
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    Sayohime(var. Lady Otohi or Otohi-hime) are classed as the Miwasan-kei setsuwa (三輪山型説話, "stories of the Mt. Miwa pattern") But there is no enduring sign...
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