Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD ix
4. TALES OF INDIA
5. 1. Vakkula’s Good Deed 3
6. 2. King Prasenajit’s Daughter Vajra the Deformed 5
7. 3. How Preceptor Bodhidharma Toured India Observing the Acts of Monks 8
8. 4. How a Poor Woman in India Got the Lotus Sutra Copied 12
9. 5. How Three Beasts Practiced the Bodhisattva Discipline and the Hare Roasted Itself 15
10. 6. How Lion’s Pity for Monkey’s Young Made Him Cut a Chunk Off Himself for Eagle 18
11. 7. How in India a Fox Passed for Beast King and Died of Riding a Lion 21
12. 8. How Tortoise, Heedless of Crane’s Warning, Fell to Earth and Got a Cracked Shell 24
13. 9. How Tortoise Was Outwitted by Monkey 26
14. 10. Where Persons Over Seventy Were Deported 28
15. TALES OF CHINA
16. 11. How Under Emperor Ming of the Later-Han Dynasty Buddhism Crossed to China 35
17. 12. How Under Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty Bodhidharma Crossed to China 39
18. 13. How Chinese Meng Tsung’s Filial Piety Got His Old Mother Bamboo Shoots in Winter 42
19. 14. How Chinese Han Po-yü When Beaten by His Mother Wept for Grief 44
20. 15. How T’ang Emperor Hsüan-tsung’s Yang Kuei-fei Was Killed by His Majesty's Favor 45
21. 16. How Knight Confucius While Traveling Met Boys Who Quizzed Him 49
22. 17. When Chuang-tzu Observed the Doings of Animals and Took to His Heels 51
23. 18. How a Woman of Ch’ang-an Changed Pillows with Her Husband and Was Killed by His Enemy 53
24. TALES OF JAPAN
25. 19. The Might of Assistant High Priest Jitsu-in of Hieizan 57
26. 20. Wrestler Umi Tsuneyo’s Match with a Snake 60
27. 21. How Wrestler Kisaichi Munehira Tossed a Blue Shark 62
28. 22. How a Man Bounced His Sword-Sheath Rod on a Fingernail and a Woman Her Needle 64
29. 23. When Kudara Kawanari and Hida Takumi Competed 65
30. 24. How a Lady Went to a Master of Medicine, Was Cured of a Boil, and Slipped Off 68
31. 25. How a Man’s Wife Became a Vengeful Ghost and How Her Malignity Was Diverted by a Master of Divination 72
32. 26. When Emperor Murakami and Sugawara Fumitoki Each Composed a Chinese Poem 74
33. 27. How Taira Koremochi Had a Retainer Killed on Him 76
34. 28. How an East-Bound Traveler Fathered a Child by a Turnip 80
35. 29. How in Mimasaka Province a God Was Trapped by a Hunter and Living Sacrifice Stopped 83
36. 30. How Mikawa Province Originated Dog's-Head Silk 88
37. 31. How the Reizei-in Water Spirit Assumed Human Form and Was Caught 91
38. 32. How Ki Tösuke’s Meeting with a Ghost-Woman in Mino Province Ended in His Death 93
39. 33. How Ex-Emperor En-yü’s Rat-Day Was Attended by Sone Yoshitada 96
40. 34. When Chikuzen-Governor Fujiwara Akiie’s Samurai Forgot Himself 99
41. 35. How in Mutsu Province a Dog-and-Mountain Dog Bit to Death a Big Snake 101
42. 36. Tsunekiyo Yasunaga’s Fuha-Barrier Dream about His Wife at the Capital 104
43. 37. Two Brothers Plant Day-Lilies and Asters 106
44. Background Points 111
45. Sources and Related Texts 145
46. Bibliography 156
47. Index 165