otogizōshi
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thumb|upright=1.3|right|Illustration from tale, published
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- Instance of
- literary genre
- Subclass of
- Japanese literature
- 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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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.