Harusame Monogatari

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").^[1]

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.^[2] The 1907 printing was based on an incomplete manuscript, and the full edition was not published till 1950.^[3]^[4]

^ Shūichi Katō, Don Sanderson -A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times 1997 - Page 191 "Akinari produced two collections of excellent short stories, Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and Moon, completed 1768, published 1776), and Harusame monogatari (Tales of Spring Rain, posthumous)"
^ Susan L. Burns Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community 2003 Page 246 "The modern Harusame monogatari has a complicated textual history. It was first printed in 1907, almost a century after Akinari's death. The printed version, based upon a manuscript owned by Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924), contained only ..."
^ Akinari Ueda, Barry Jackman Harusame monogatari 1975- Page xx "editors of that period.4 Subsequent printed editions of Harusame Monogatari were based on the Fujioka version. In 1939, however, Shigetomo Ki went back to the Tomioka manuscript itself and prepared an edition that adhered closely to ..."
^ Paul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker -The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing 1996- Page 194 "Notes 1. "Nise no en" is from Ueda Akinari's collection of stories, Harusame monogatari (Tales of the spring rain; 1802-9). A complete version of the text did not become available in print until 1950, "

[1] Shūichi Katō, Don Sanderson -A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times 1997 - Page 191 "Akinari produced two collections of excellent short stories, Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and Moon, completed 1768, published 1776), and Harusame monogatari (Tales of Spring Rain, posthumous)"

[2] Susan L. Burns Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community 2003 Page 246 "The modern Harusame monogatari has a complicated textual history. It was first printed in 1907, almost a century after Akinari's death. The printed version, based upon a manuscript owned by Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924), contained only ..."

[3] Akinari Ueda, Barry Jackman Harusame monogatari 1975- Page xx "editors of that period.4 Subsequent printed editions of Harusame Monogatari were based on the Fujioka version. In 1939, however, Shigetomo Ki went back to the Tomioka manuscript itself and prepared an edition that adhered closely to ..."

[4] Paul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker -The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing 1996- Page 194 "Notes 1. "Nise no en" is from Ueda Akinari's collection of stories, Harusame monogatari (Tales of the spring rain; 1802-9). A complete version of the text did not become available in print until 1950, "

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