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Ueda Akinari books Ugetsu Monogatari, Cuentos de lluvia y de luna, Ugetsu Monogatari Or Tales | ||
The Harusame monogatari (kanji: 春雨物語, hiragana: はるさめものがたり）, translated as "The Tales of Spring Rain" (less commonly "Tales of the Spring Rain") is the second famous collection of Japanese stories by Ueda Akinari after the Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Moonlight and Rain").
Contents
The collection of ten stories is part of the yomihon genre of Japanese literature, which is a notable representative of Japan's contribution to the world's Early Modern literature, though this second collection of Ueda's was not printed until a century after his death in 1907. The 1907 printing was based on an incomplete manuscript, and the full edition was not published till 1950.
Contents
The semi-historical stories reflect Akinari's kokugaku interests in historical fiction.
Comparisons with Ugetsu Monogatari
Both collections share Akinari's "kokugaku-inspired delight in the mysterious and problematic". Unlike Ugetsu Monogatari the Harusame Monogatari is not essentially a collection of ghost stories. The elegant style of the earlier collection is replaced with a terse "sometimes choppy" style.