¡Isemonogatari(Shogakukan Bunko Kku 1-1 Manga Koten Bungaku)
¡Kuro Tetsu Hiroshi / Cho
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[Machine Translation] A poem-tale of unknown author, said to have been established in the early Heian period. It is in one volume. It consists of 125 stages. Each section begins with the words ("Long ago, a man..."), often in the manner of Uzaiwara no Narihira. ), which is reminiscent of the poet Urahara no Narihira. It consists of a few lines of text in kana (several dozen lines at the longest, two or three lines at the shortest) and a poem, from the man's first crowning (Uji-koburi) to his death. Each chapter is an independent short story. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including love stories, parent-child relationships, sibling love, friendship, social life, and so on. Each chapter contains a waka poem, which is called "uta monogatari" ("poem tale"), because it is the theme song of the chapter. All chapters, including familiar ones such as "Akutagawa" ("Akutagawa"), "Higashigori" ("Higashigori"), and "Tsutsuizutsu" ("Tsutsuizutsu"), are elegant and graceful.
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