Bogi i bogini, duhi i prizraki, geroi i krasavicy, imperatory i polkovodcy, svyatye chudotvorcy i greshnye miryane...«Skazaniya Drevney YAponii» kniga interesnaya i znatokam, i cenitelyam unikal'noy yaponskoy kul'tury, i lyudyam, kotorye tol'ko nachinayut otkryvat' ee dlya sebya.V pervom razdele sbornika pered chitatelem predstaet prichudlivyy mir yaponskoy sintoistskoy mifologii. Vtoroy posvyashchen geroicheski-istoricheskim predaniyam. A tretiy sostavlyayut istorii-pritchi pouchitel'nogo haraktera, v kotoryh narodnaya fantaziya prichudlivo prelomila moral'no-eticheskie i filosofskie principy buddizma.