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The outlines and illustrations of Otogi zoshi, a group of fairy tales composed during the period from the Muromachi Era to the beginning of the Edo Period, are now available in the digital archive.
Please enjoy the stories with the images of the beautifully colored illustrations digitized from our rare materials.
 

Enjoying Otogi Zoshi with the Help of Synopsis and Illustrations

 Otogi Zoshi are tales for adults and children enjoy alike. In the Muromachi Period and the Edo Period, people would have great fun thumbing through the pages by themselves or have someone read to them - there were many ways to enjoy the stories. The greatest pleasure of all though, must surely have been the beautiful painted color illustrations.
 Many of these flamboyantly illustrated Otogi Zoshi tales are in the possession of the Kyoto University Library. So that you can taste the same enjoyment as people of the olden days, we have added the beautiful illustrations to the each synopsis of the tale and made it like a picture book. The synopsis is for people who have trouble with Japanese classics, who cannot work out what has been written but who want to know the story, so ease of understanding was our biggest goal. The expression is not rigorously modern, but in order to convey the atmosphere of the story we were a little creative. We will be happy if you enjoy it as a picture book.

• Episode 1. 玉水物語 The Tale of Tamamizu (RB00013653)
• Episode 2. 物くさ太郎 Monokusa Taro (RB00013191)
• Episode 3. 烏帽子折草子（ゑほしおりさうし） Yeboshi Ori Zoshi (RB00013179)
• Episode 4. 満仲（まんじゅう） Manjuu (RB00013190)
• Episode 5. 付喪神 Tsukumogami (RB00013599)
• Episode 6. ふくろう Owl (RB00013187)
• Episode 7. 祇王 Gio (RB00013182)　　
• Episode 8. 塩焼き文正 Bunsho The Saltmaker (RB00013523)
• Episode 9. たま藻のまへ Tamamo-no-mae (RB00013524)
• Episode 10. 雁の草子 A tale of tragic love of a lady and a bird (RB00013519)[Japanese only]
• Episode 11. 車僧草子 The Wagon Monk Story (RB00013521)
• Episode 12. 西行物語 The Tale of Saigyo (RB00013169)
• Episode 13. 弁慶物語 The Tale of Benkei (RB00013189)[Japanese only]
  
  

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One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one titles of rare materials, including 996 titles of Kawai Collection, Meiji Restoration Collection, Fujikawa Collection and Hiramatsu Collection, have been newly publicized in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, in which a total of 5,570 titles are available as of today.

1,851 new rare materials including Kawai Collection publicized (Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive - News)
https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/2018-02-07

[Kawai Collection]
https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/kawai

Kawai Collection consists of Korean classical manuscripts and books collected by Dr. Hirotami Kawai. Kyoto University bought the collection from his family in 1919 and since then has preserved it as one of its rare collections.

In 2015, Kyoto University Library, the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University and the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University concluded an agreement on the cooperation for the investigation of Korean classics Kyoto University Library holds, the digitization of them and the compilation of metadata for them.

We have published 996 manuscripts digitized based on this agreement. The remaining manuscripts and books will also be available in this digital archive in the future.

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