Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Nine tales told under a clouded moon: a warrior sworn to return on the chrysanthemum festival who means to keep the day whatever it costs him, a man who leaves his wife for the capital and comes back years afterward to find the house still standing, a woman of great beauty who is not a woman. Ueda Akinari took plots from Chinese vernacular collections and rewrote them in a dense classical Japanese thick with allusion to Genji and to Noh, each story turning on a promise made and left hanging. Two of them were braided together by Mizoguchi two centuries later, and the collection is still the high point of Edo supernatural writing.
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- ↓ Ugetsu
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