Otogi-zōshi (御伽草子) are a group of about 350 Japanese prose narratives written primarily in the Muromachi period (1392–1573). These illustrated short stories...

Otogi-zōshi (お伽草紙) is a Japanese collection of short stories by Osamu Dazai. In this work, the author is giving the reader a reinterpretation of classic...

Otogi Zoshi (お伽草子, Otogizōshi, lit. Fairy-Tale Book) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G. A manga adaptation was published...

Rashōmon (羅生門) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in two books, likely composed around the middle of the Muromachi period. Rashōmon was probably composed around...

(浦島太郎) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in one volume. Urashima Tarō was composed during the Muromachi period. It is a work of the otogi-zōshi genre. Most of the...

end of the Kamakura period, it is in the illustration movement of Otogi-zōshi (otogi meaning "to tell stories") that emakimono developed a new popular...

(藍染川, "Aisome River") is an anthology of Japanese short stories, or an otogi-zōshi. The text dates to the Muromachi period, and survives in a single manuscript...

son of Amatsukunitama. The Ame no Wakahiko Monogatari [ja], one of the Otogi-zōshi, is a monogatari about him. The name Ame no Wakahiko means "a young boy...

Tarō otogi-zōshi extant. These variants fall into four broad groups, clustered by their similarity. The Otogi Bunko text belongs to Group IV. The Otogi Bunko...

Koshikibu (小式部) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi from the late Muromachi period. It is also known as The Tale of Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部の物語 Izumi Shikibu no monogatari)...

into the corpus of Otogi-zōshi ("Companion tales"), and became widely read in the woodblock-printed versions of them called the Otogi Bunko (Companion Library)...

Koshikibu (小式部) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in two volumes, probably composed at the end of the Muromachi period. To distinguish it from a slightly earlier...

Later the medieval novella Kitsune zōshi (or Kitsune no sōshi) appeared, which may be included in the Otogi-zōshi genre under the broader definition,...

prosper for generations. However, the version of the story written in the Otogi-zōshi has a few differences: The old couple was disturbed by how Issun-bōshi...

incredibly large number of shorter works known as monogatari-zōshi (more commonly called otogi-zōshi, a name that was applied later) were created. Many of them...

prized mallet dates much earlier than the tales, which are part of the otogi-zōshi collection from the Muromachi period. It can be traced at as far back...

Medieval Japan was a time period where publications such as emakimono, Otogi-zōshi, and other visual depictions of yōkai started to appear. While there...

female and her future consort, Prince Ame-waka-hiko. In this tale of the Otogi-zōshi genre, the Prince takes the form of a serpent and marries a human woman...

plotting to kill Emperor Toba and take his throne. According to the otogi-zōshi, when the nine-tailed fox was killed by the famous warrior named Miura-no-suke...

1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka. Ukiyo-zōshi literature developed from the broader genre of kana-zōshi, books written in the katakana vernacular for...

鉢かづき; English: "The bowl-bearer princess") is a Japanese folktale of the Otogi-zōshi genre. It refers to a maiden of noble birth who wears a bowl on her head...

music used in the anime Aoi Bungaku and the "Heian Arc" of the anime Otogi Zoshi. In addition, he performed opening theme songs for Hajime no Ippo as...

oral tradition. Well-known Japanese "fairy tale" are often found in the Otogi-zōshi or the Konjaku Monogatarishū. Germany and German-speaking Austria, Switzerland...

nyōbo [ja] (蛤女房, "clam wife"), which exist in both a politer written version (otogi-zōshi) and in a more rustic and vulgar oral tale. The gender is reversed in...

designer. He has done character designs for the anime Kai Doh Maru, Otogi Zoshi, the survival horror video game Galerians: Ash, and the CGI OVA Galerians:...

wit and subject matter of fashionbooks with the graphic nature of the otogi-zōshi to retell the classic noh drama Kantan in contemporary Edo. Harumachi...

California Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-520-25361-2. Araki, James T. (1981). "Otogi-zōshi and Nara ehon: A Field of Study in Flux". Monumenta Nipponica. 36: 1–5...

golden-haired Sakata Kintoki, also made an appearance. In the anime series Otogi Zoshi, Kintaro is one of the main characters. The Imagin Kintaros from the...

legend of Sōjōbō and Yoshitsune is the otogi-zōshi story called Tengu no dairi (The Palace of the Tengu). Otogi-zōshi is a genre of Japanese fiction that...

Osamu Dazai rewrote Kachi-Kachi Yama with his original interpretation in Otogi-zōshi (お伽草紙, a Japanese collection of short stories), a fatal story where the...