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Also known as Otogi-zōshi

thumb|upright=1.3|right|Illustration from tale, published

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Vinony's link graph records 302 inbound references to otogizōshi, and connects out to kitsune, Yamabiko and Osaka.

It is catalogued under topics including Japanese folklore, Late Middle Japanese texts and Otogi-zōshi.

Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.

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Instance of
literary genre
Country
Japan
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name in kana
おとぎぞうし
language of work or name
Japanese
topic's main category
Category:Otogi-zōshi
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16 sections
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  • Overview
  • List
  • {{transliteration|ja|Kuge-mono}}
  • ''Shūkyō-mono''
  • ''Buke-mono''
  • ''Shomin-mono''
  • ''Gaikoku-mono''
  • ''Irui-mono''
  • Categories
  • Origins of the term {{transliteration|ja|otogi-zōshi}}
  • History of {{transliteration|ja|otogi-zōshi}} scholarship
  • List of {{transliteration|ja|otogi-zōshi}}
  • References
  • Works cited
  • Further reading
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thumb|upright=1.3|right|Illustration from tale, published

are a group of about 350 Japanese prose narratives written primarily in the Muromachi period (1392–1573). These illustrated short stories, which remain unattributed, together form one of the representative literary genres of the Japanese medieval era.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “otogizōshi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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