Tales of Japanese Justice / / Ihara Saikaku.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Saikaku, Ihara,
• MitwirkendeR: Kondo, Thomas M.,; Marks, Alfred H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Studies at Hawaii ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. WISDOM -- 1. Mount Matsuba in Early Spring -- 2. The Cloud-Clearing Shadow -- 3. In the Ear the Same Word Resounds -- 4. They Did Not Know What Was in the Drum -- 5. The Wonderful Potion That Calls One's Name -- 6. Twins Who Break a Blood Tie -- 7. Nine Drinks of Sake—and Living -- 8. A Gift of a False Sleeve -- PART II. DISTINCTION -- 1. The Short Bow of the Ten-night Nembutsu -- 2. The Overtones of Kanehira -- 3. The Fifty-night Dream of Buddha -- 4. Bitter Feelings over Marriage to a Neighbor -- 5. Day Laborers Cost the Capital Money -- 6. Bills for Sea Bream, Octopus, and Perch -- 7. Something for the Deaf to Hear -- 8. The Departed Spirit Facing the Mountain of Swords -- 9. A Kyoto Wife with Clear Title Is Sent Away -- PART III. THOUGHT -- 1. Gowns through Which Evil Deeds Show -- 2. A Note Disappears but Honesty Stands -- 3. A Well for the Life Hereafter -- 4. A Loser, A Finder -- 5. Nembutsus Sold; Metals Chime -- 6. Wait and the Sums Will Match -- 7. "Spend the Money" Makes an Unusual Will -- 8. Vase Dug Up, a Vessel for Greed -- 9. Warbler on the Branch Makes a Wife Cry -- PART IV. COMPASSION -- 1. A Wise Woman's Fib -- 2. Two Choices: One Good, One Bad -- 3. What He Finds Is a Dream Love-Affair -- 4. The Sickle Unreturned -- 5. Capital Mistresses -- 6. Capital People on Pilgrimage—Blossoms on Dead Branches -- 7. A Contrivance Cast on the Waters of the Katsura River -- 8. A Brazen Servant Reveals His Own Foulness -- 9. Biwa Music Reveals a Clue -- PART V. FORGIVENESS -- 1. Palace Prints Covered with Cherry Blossoms -- 2. An Order to Pile up Four or Five Bowls -- 3. Pulse-taking Priest Thumps a Thief -- 4. Without Two Parties Present the Storehouse Does Not Open -- 5. A Life Hangs on the Tip of a Writing Brush -- 6. A Memory Device Tied to the Little Finger -- 7. A Man with a Mind Manifest in Smoke -- 8. They Knew the Name but Not the Face -- 9. Transmitting the Noh Master's Art -- Measure Equivalents -- Index to the Notes -- Asian Studies at Hawaii