Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Japanese literature, a story; a narrative.
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Examples
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I was all impatience and yearning, and in my mind was always praying that I might read all the books of Genji-monogatari from the very first one.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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Bakemonogatari "is a wordplay on the Japanese term bakemono for supernatural creatures and the term monogatari for stories.)
Vigilante Sports 2009
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* The expression "monogatari" finds its nearest English equivalent in
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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I got to check out 'Ugetsu monogatari' at the New Beverly.
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Mizuki, Shigeru, 1922- Nonnonbā monogatari / Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1995
Archive 2010-02-01 David S. Carter 2010
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Mizuki, Shigeru, 1922- Nonnonbā monogatari / Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1995
New Library Comics: November 2009 David S. Carter 2010
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Yuri monogatari / United States : ALC, c2004- vol.
New Library Comics: Week of August 11, 2008 David S. Carter 2008
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Barclay, "'Seiban Kondo' no monogatari: chuo sanmyaku odan ni inochi o kaketa Nihonjin no shoden."
Archive 2008-11-01 Michael Turton 2008
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Below is a trailer from the first film in the Yokai Monster series, 100 Monsters aka Yôkai hyaku monogatari 1968:
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Yuri monogatari / United States : ALC, c2004- vol.
Archive 2008-08-01 David S. Carter 2008
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