Tales of Japanese Justice

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPART I. WISDOM\n1. Mount Matsuba in Early Spring\n2. The Cloud-Clearing Shadow\n3. In the Ear the Same Word Resounds\n4. They Did Not Know What Was in the Drum\n5. The Wonderful Potion That Calls One\'s Name\n6. Twins Who Break a Blood Tie\n7. Nine Drinks of Sake—and Living\n8. A Gift of a False Sleeve\nPART II. DISTINCTION\n1. The Short Bow of the Ten-night Nembutsu\n2. The Overtones of Kanehira\n3. The Fifty-night Dream of Buddha\n4. Bitter Feelings over Marriage to a Neighbor\n5. Day Laborers Cost the Capital Money\n6. Bills for Sea Bream, Octopus, and Perch\n7. Something for the Deaf to Hear\n8. The Departed Spirit Facing the Mountain of Swords\n9. A Kyoto Wife with Clear Title Is Sent Away\nPART III. THOUGHT\n1. Gowns through Which Evil Deeds Show\n2. A Note Disappears but Honesty Stands\n3. A Well for the Life Hereafter\n4. A Loser, A Finder\n5. Nembutsus Sold; Metals Chime\n6. Wait and the Sums Will Match\n7. \"Spend the Money\" Makes an Unusual Will\n8. Vase Dug Up, a Vessel for Greed\n9. Warbler on the Branch Makes a Wife Cry\nPART IV. COMPASSION\n1. A Wise Woman\'s Fib\n2. Two Choices: One Good, One Bad\n3. What He Finds Is a Dream Love-Affair\n4. The Sickle Unreturned\n5. Capital Mistresses\n6. Capital People on Pilgrimage—Blossoms on Dead Branches\n7. A Contrivance Cast on the Waters of the Katsura River\n8. A Brazen Servant Reveals His Own Foulness\n9. Biwa Music Reveals a Clue\nPART V. FORGIVENESS\n1. Palace Prints Covered with Cherry Blossoms\n2. An Order to Pile up Four or Five Bowls\n3. Pulse-taking Priest Thumps a Thief\n4. Without Two Parties Present the Storehouse Does Not Open\n5. A Life Hangs on the Tip of a Writing Brush\n6. A Memory Device Tied to the Little Finger\n7. A Man with a Mind Manifest in Smoke\n8. They Knew the Name but Not the Face\n9. Transmitting the Noh Master\'s Art\nMeasure Equivalents\nIndex to the Notes\nAsian Studies at Hawaii