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Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain : a Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Collection of Tales of the Supernatural
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Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain : a Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Collection of Tales of the Supernatural

by Ueda Akinari, Leon M. Zolbrod. 280 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Ueda Akinari, Leon M. Zolbrod

Publisher:

   University of British Columbia Press

Place of Publication:

  Vancouver, B.C  

Publication Year:

  1974
Subjects:   Fantasy Fiction, Japanese--Translations Into English, Supernatural--Fiction
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Translator's Foreword page 9
INTRODUCTION 19
1 Meaning of the Title 19
2 Biographical Sketch of Ueda Akinari 22
3 Reading Books 28
4 The Romance of Travel and the Poetry of Place 32
5 Historical Background 37
6 Philosophy and Religion 44
7 The Art of Fiction 49
8 World of the Supernatural 53
9 Literary Style 56
10 Chinese Influence 61
11 Influence of Japanese Classics 66
12 Structure 72
13 Akinari's Legacy 77
14 The Present Edition 82
Notes on the Introduction 88
UGETSU MONOGATARI
VOLUME ONE
Preface 97
White Peak (Shiramine) 98
Chrysanthemum Tryst (Kikuka no chigiri) 109
VOLUME TWO
The House Amid the Thickets (Asaji ga yado) 121
The Carp That Came to My Dream (Muō no rigyo) 132
VOLUME THREE
Bird of Paradise (Buppōsō) 139
VI The Caldron of Kibitsu (Kibitsu no kama) 149
VOLUME FOUR
The Lust of the White Serpent (Jasei no in) 161
VOLUME FIVE
The Blue Hood (Aozukin) 185
Wealth and Poverty (Himpuku-ron) 194
Notes on the Text 207
APPENDICES
1 Imperial Succession in the Twelfth Century 261
2 Alphabetical Index to the First Line of Verses Translated in the Text and Notes 263
3 Map of Japan in Provinces 267
4 Japanese Literary Sources: Alphabetical List of Selected Titles 269
5 Chinese Literary Sources: Alphabetical List of Titles Mentioned in the Introduction and Notes 273
6 Seven Representative Tokugawa Collections of Tales of the Supernatural That Preceded Ugetsu monogatari 275
Select Bibliography 277
Texts in Japanese Consulted for the Present Edition
Translations into European Languages
Japanese Secondary Sources
Western Secondary Sources
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