Japanese Tales
Royall Tyler
Culled from a variety of period Japanese sources (from the 8th to the 15th centuries), with probably the best footnoting (in terms of source material) that I have seen in any book of collected stories from any period or location. (The down side: most of the stories are, well, I suppose medieval Japanese nobility would find them, er, amusing, like the story of the tapeworm that married a noble woman and...) [FS]

 
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