- Otogi-
zōshi (御伽草子) are a
group of
about 350 ****anese
prose narratives written primarily in the
Muromachi period (1392–1573).
These illustrated short stories...
- Ukiyo-
zōshi (浮世草子, "books of the
floating world") is the
first major genre of po****r ****anese fiction,
written between the 1680s and 1770s in
Kyoto and...
- (馬骨, lit. 'horse bone') is one of the 16 yōkai
depicted in the Tosa
Obake Zōshi,
drawn during the Edo period; it
appears as a skeletal,
flaming horse, claimed...
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Otogi Zoshi (お伽草子, Otogizōshi, lit. Fairy-Tale Book) is a ****anese
anime television series produced by
Production I.G. A
manga adaptation was published...
- Otogi-
zōshi (お伽草紙) is a ****anese
collection of
short stories by
Osamu Dazai. In this work, the
author is
giving the
reader a
reinterpretation of classic...
- "Aoto
Zōshi Hana no Nishiki-e" (青砥稿花紅彩画), as the
original and
fullest version of this play is known, is a tale in five acts of the
shiranamimono (tales...
- Mumyōzōshi (無名草子,
literally "nameless book") is an
early 13th-century ****anese text. One
volume in length, it is the
oldest existing ****anese text on prose...
- 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...
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Medieval ****an was a time
period where publications such as emakimono, Otogi-
zōshi, and
other visual depictions of yōkai
started to appear.
While there were...
-
prized mallet dates much
earlier than the tales,
which are part of the otogi-
zōshi collection from the
Muromachi period. It can be
traced at as far back as...
