Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-two Stories From a Medieval Japanese Collection

Abstract

Sutra to Save the Soul of a Fox CHAPTER FIFTEEN 28 How a Priest of Chinzei Who Ate Carrion Was Reborn in Paradise CHAPTER SIXTEEN 17 How Kaya no Yoshifuji, of Bitchu Province, Became the Husband of a Fox and Was Saved by Kannon 102 20 How Travelers from Chinzei, Through Kannon's Aid, Escaped Being Killed by Bandits 32 How an Invisible Man Regained Corporeal Form through Kannon's Aid CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 1 About a Monk Who Prayed to Meet a Manifestation of the Bodhisattva Jizo x Contents 2 How Ki no Mochikata Worshipped Jizo and Benefited from His Favor 115 44 How a Monk through Bishamonten's Aid Begot Gold and Obtained a Means of Support 117 CHAPTER NINETEEN 8 How a Falconer in the Western Part of the Capital Renounced Secular Life Because of a Dream 121 24 About the Monk Whose Name Was Entered on a Petition to the God of Mount T'ai to Take the Place of His Master 124 CHAPTER TWENTY 35 How Shinkai, a Monk of Mount Hiei, Suffered Retribution in This Present Life for Jealousy 127 Secular Tales of Japan