King Prasenajit's daughter Vajra the Deformed
How preceptor Bodhidharma toured India observing the acts of monks
How a poor woman in India got the Lotus Sutra copied
How three beasts practiced the bodhisattva discipline and the hare roasted itself
How lion's pity for monkey's young made him cut a chunk off himself for eagle
How in India a fox passed for beast king and died of riding a lion
How tortoise, heedless of crane's warning, fell to earth and got a cracked shell
How tortoise was outwitted by monkey
Where persons over seventy were deported
How under Emperor Ming of the Later-Han dynasty Buddhism crossed to China
How under Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty Bodhidharma crossed to China
How Chinese Meng Tsung's filial piety got his old mother bamboo shoots in winter
How Chinese Han Po-yü when beaten by his mother wept for grief
How T'ang Emperor Hsüan-tsung's Yang Kuei-fei was killed by his majesty's favor
How knight Confucius while traveling met boys who quizzed him
When Chuang-tzu observed the doings of animals and took to his heels
How a woman of Ch'ang-an changed pillows with her husband and was killed by his enemy
The might of assistant high priest Jitsu-in of Hieizan
Wrestler Umi Tsuneyo's match with a snake
How wrestler Kisaichi Munehira tossed a blue shark
How a man bounced his sword-sheath rod on a fingernail and a woman her needle
When Kudara Kawanari and Hida Takumi competed
How a lady went to a master of medicine, was cured of a boil, and slipped off
How a man's wife became a vengeful ghost and how her malignity was diverted by a master of divination
When Emperor Murakami and Sugawara Fumitoki each composed a Chinese poem
How Taira Koremochi had a retainer killed on him
How an east-bound traveler fathered a child by a turnip
How in Mimasaka province a god was trapped by a hunter and living sacrifice stopped
How Mikawa province originated dog's-head silk
How the Reizei-in water spirit assumed human form and was caught
How Ki Tosuke's meeting with a ghost-woman in Mino province ended in his death
How ex-emperor En-Yu's rat-day was attended by Sone Yoshitada
When Chikuzen-governor Fujiwara Akiies samurai forgot himself
How in Mutsu province a dog-and-mountain dog bit to death a big snake
Tsunekiyo Yasunaga's fuha-barrier dream about his wife at the capital
Two brothers plant day-lilies and asters.
