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Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
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Ury, Marian

Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, becaus…

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Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
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Ury, Marian

Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, becaus…

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9780472902118
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909.81 URY t
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Poems of the Five Mountains: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Mon…
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Ury, Marian

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life. Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived from the last quarter of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth century, these poem…

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9780472902156
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895.6 URY p
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Poems of the Five Mountains An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Mon…
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Ury, Marian

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life.

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