Yamato Monogatari

Yamato Monogatari

The Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, Tales of Yamato) is a 10th Century monogatari.

Poets

The poet Henjo is mentioned within the text, with many stories about his many lovers and religious conversations that he had included inside.²

Supernatural Creatures

Within its texts it discusses the Yōkai known as the Kurozuka.

Stanza 58 from one of the poems in the manuscript states:

At Kurozuka, in Adachi of Mutsu Province,
lurks a demon, they say.
Could it be true?¹

Footnotes

1. Yoda, H. and Alt, M. (2016) “Japandemonium: Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopaedia of Toriyama Sekien.”. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
2. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.

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