The Shasekishū (沙石集), also read as Sasekishū,[1][2][3] translated into English as Collection of Stone and Sand,[4] is a five-volume collection of Buddhist parables written by the Japanese monk Mujū in 1283 during the Kamakura period.
It is best known in English for an excerpt included in 101 Zen Stories.
The text makes mention of the Yōkai known as the Nozuchi.[5]
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edit- Kubota, Jun (2007). Iwanami Nihon Koten Bungaku Jiten [Iwanami dictionary of Japanese classical literature] (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 978-4-00-080310-6.
- Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten: Kan'yakuban [A Comprehensive Dictionary of Classical Japanese Literature: Concise Edition]. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. 1986. ISBN 4-00-080067-1.
- Reps, Paul; Senzaki, Nyogen (1957). Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-zen Writings. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9780804831864.
- Watanabe, Tsunaya (1966). Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 85: Shasekishū (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-060085-0.
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