Histoires fantastiques du temps jadis
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Overview:
- Title: Histoires fantastiques du temps jadis
- Author: uncredited
- Year: 2004
- ISBN-10: 2877307492
- Publisher: Éditions Philippe Picquier
- Price: €8.50
- Pages: 284
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Histoires fantastiques du temps jadis
- Notes:
- Probable first printing; © 2004 for this pb edition.
- A selection of 42 fantastic stories from Konjaku monogatari shū, "Collection of Past and Present Anecdotes", attributed to Minamoto no Takakuni (1004-1077). This book in 31 volumes (three of which are lost) contains 1059 anecdotes.
- Note that in this pub, the stories remain uncredited.
- The stories are grouped under six headings : "Démons" (p. 37-96), "Fantômes et spectres" (p. 97-124), "Tengus" (p. 125-150), "Renards, renards et sangliers" (p. 151-186), "Serpentes et serpents" (p. 187-234) and "Dieux et esprits" (p. 235-254).
- Cover art is a detail from an uncredited 16th century artwork entitled "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" (百鬼夜行, Hyakki Yagyō or Hyakki Yakō).
- Interior art consists of reproductions of miscellaneous Japanese artworks.
- French translation and presentation (2002) by Dominique Lavigne-Kurihara.