Kojidan ( 古事談 , Reflections on Ancient Matters) is a Japanese collection of Buddhist setsuwa . It was authored by Minamoto no Akikane between 1212 and 1215 during the early Kamakura period .
9-428: The text is six volumes in length and contains 462 setsuwa stories many of which focus on monks, the aristocracy, and the imperial palace. It was extremely popular and influenced a number of following collections beginning with the 1219 text Zoku Kojidan and Uji Shūi Monogatari . The Kojidan is the source of words still used in modern Japanese including 別荘 ( bessō ) , a summer house. One setsuwa included in
18-680: A time when the former emperor was rigorously following the Buddhist precepts against the taking of a life. The Kojidan also contains a version of the Japanese folkstory Urashima Tarō , which had been published in many older Japanese chronicles including the Nihon Shoki and the Man'yōshū . The version in the Kojidan is titled Urashimako Den and is believed to be a much older version dating back to
27-409: Is a collection of Japanese tales written around the beginning of the 13th century. The author is unknown, and it may have been revised several times. The title means "gleanings from Uji Dainagon Monogatari ", a book which no longer exists. The Dainagon of Uji was Minamoto no Takakuni . The work is classified as setsuwa literature. Following in the footsteps of Konjaku Monogatarishū , it
36-496: Is the representative setsuwa work of the Kamakura period . The story is made up of 197 tales spanning 15 volumes. The preface states that it contains tales from Japan, India, and China. However, few of them are original, with many stories containing common elements from earlier works such as Konjaku Monogatarishū . Contents include a number of characters ranging from nobles to commoners and tales ranging from everyday stories to
45-511: The Nara or Hakuhō period , based on vocabulary usage. Additionally the Urashima version of the Kojidan differs significantly from other Urashima stories in how it places more emphasis and embellishes the role of Emperor Junwa. This Japanese history–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Uji Sh%C5%ABi Monogatari Uji Shūi Monogatari ( 宇治拾遺物語 )
54-426: The Kojidan was of a woman who committed adultery with the bishop ( sōjō ( 僧正 ) Ninkai and gave birth to a boy. Out of fear that the relationship with Ninkai would be discovered, the mother let the infant drink mercury, thinking that if the child survived, he would not be able to have sexual intercourse, which was forbidden to monks. The story illustrated that while the mother's behavior was unacceptable, Ninkai, who
63-515: The daughter of Gion-no-Shōnin Hōshi, who became the consort of Emperor Go-Shirakawa as a reward for her virtue after she was sent by her father to bring offerings to Ninkai as he worshipped Dakiniten for one thousand days at Mount Inari . In the Kojidan, the Gion Consort was described as such an extraordinary lover of meat that she sent out people to hunt every day so she could have fresh meat, at
72-484: The obscure and comical. Several of the stories were used as a basis for short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa including Hell Screen . The tales collected in Uji Shūi Monogatari can be split into the following major categories: Some tales contain Buddhist didactic elements, but the overall work does not place a particularly strong emphasis on Buddhism, setting it apart from many other setsuwa collections. It
81-411: Was at the highest rank of official monk, was guilty of breaking a precept of Buddhism. The episode notes that as an adult, the son, Jōson, who also became a monk, did not have sexual relations with either men or women. Japanese historian Kenji Matsuo suggests that this was noted because homosexual relationships were common in monk communities. Another account describes a woman known as the Gion Consort,
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