num_pages: 277
description: A timeless work, beloved since the Middle Ages, takes a glorious new form in this deluxe modern edition.The Tales of Ise contains 125 vignettes following a valiant hero from his "coming of age" to his death. Included here are sixteen black-and-white woodblock prints originally published in 1608.
language: English
title: Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan
titlecomplete: Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan
genres: Classics, Asian Literature, Fiction, Japan, Short Stories, Asia, 10th Century, Japanese Literature, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 560
publisher: Stanford University Press