Strange Tales Stories of Past and Past

About This Novel

"The Story of the Past" is a representative work of Japanese classical literature. It tells the folk legends of Japan in the late Heian period. The book has more than thirty volumes in total. This book selects the most exciting and representative chapters in "The Story of the Past", such as the story of dog-headed silk that is widely circulated in Japan, the legend of the ancient tomb of the chopsticks, the story of the fox fairy and the spirit turtle repaying kindness, and the secret of the revenge of the resentful spirit... Each story contains profound moral and cultural implications, advocating truth, goodness and beauty, and opposing falseness and ugliness. The book "The Story of the Past" had a considerable influence on subsequent literary creation, and is a model for later generations of "story" creation. The famous Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa and the famous director Akira Kurosawa have both made it clear that "The Story of the Past" is their "source of inspiration for creation". Ryunosuke Akutagawa also called it "an ancient Japanese human comedy". Most of Mengyang Tapir's "Onmyoji" series are based on this book. Its unique feature of "collecting the culmination of spoken literature" makes it play an extremely important role in world literature and is recognized as a "treasure house of world literary materials".

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