Konjaku Monogatarishū

Konjaku Monogatarishū (今昔物語集, lit. Anthology of Tales from the Past), also known as the Konjaku Monogatari (今昔物語) is a Japanese collection of over one thousand tales written during the late Heian period (794–1185). The entire collection was originally contained in 31 volumes, of which 28 remain today. The volumes cover various tales from India, China and Japan. Detailed evidence of lost monogatari exist in the form of literary critique, which can be studied to reconstruct the objects of their critique to some extent.