Konjaku Monogatarishū Ghost Narratives
- Date of account
- Late Heian period, probably early twelfth century
- Location
- Japan, with India and China sections
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Konjaku Monogatarishū is a large setsuwa collection containing tales of revenants, possession, uncanny encounters and karmic consequences, alongside Buddhist and secular stories. Its relevance lies in showing how apparition accounts functioned within a mixed narrative corpus rather than as a modern case-file genre. Some stories derive from Indian, Chinese or Japanese traditions, making transmission and translation central research questions. Manuscript history is complex, and individual episodes should not automatically be read as records of events witnessed by identifiable historical observers.
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