Yamato Monogatari
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Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, "Tales of Yamato") is a collection of 173 short stories which give details about life in the imperial court in the 9th and 10th centuries.[1]
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It is an uta monogatari (a work combining narrative fiction with waka poetry) from the 10th-century Japan. The exact date of the completion of the text is unknown, but the majority of the text was completed in the year 951 by an unknown author.[citation needed]