Fable, Parable, And Allegory, Japan
In Japan the Koji-ki (712; �Records of Ancient Matters�) and the Nihon-shoki (8th century; �Chronicles of Japan�), both of them official histories of Japan, were studded with fables, many of them on the theme of a small intelligent animal getting the better of a large stupid one. The same is true of the fudoki (local gazetteers dating from 713 and later). The form reached its height in the Kamakura
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