Shasekishū

{{Short description|1283 collection of Buddhist parables by Mujū}}

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The {{Nihongo|Shasekishū|沙石集}}, also read as Sasekishū,Watanabe (1966:57)Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten (1986:896-897)Kubota (2007:166) translated into English as Collection of Stone and Sand,Zen Flesh, Zen Bones 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.{{Cite web|title=Shasekishū • A History of Japan - 日本歴史|url=https://historyofjapan.co.uk/wiki/shasekishu/|access-date=2021-09-07|website=A History of Japan - 日本歴史|language=en-GB}}

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  • {{cite book|last1=Reps|first1=Paul|last2=Senzaki|first2=Nyogen|author-link1=Paul Reps|author-link2=Nyogen Senzaki|title=Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-zen Writings|date=1957|location= North Clarendon, VT|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=9780804831864}}
  • {{cite book

| last = Watanabe

| first = Tsunaya

| title = Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 85: Shasekishū

| publisher = Iwanami Shoten

| year = 1966

| language = Japanese

| isbn = 4-00-060085-0

}}

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Category:13th-century books

Category:Early Middle Japanese texts

Category:Setsuwa

Category:Japanese books

Category:Japanese Buddhist texts

Category:Shinbutsu shūgō

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