The back cover is slightly yellowed, but otherwise clean. Created from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period, the short story collection "Otogizōshi" was widely read by people from all walks of life. With its novel and eccentric themes, it presents a diverse world of stories. Among the over 400 existing works, many well-known tales are included, such as "Issun-bōshi" (One-Inch Boy), "Urashima Tarō," and "Shuten-dōji." Furthermore, Otogizōshi was also enjoyed in picture scrolls and picture books, and its simple and humorous illustrations are one of its charms. The Muromachi period, when Otogizōshi flourished, was a time of transformation in politics, economics, and culture due to repeated wars. The era sought new stories, and in addition to aristocratic love stories from the Heian period, it produced a wide variety of stories featuring monks and commoners, who had previously been supporting characters in the world of storytelling. The diversification of protagonists is also deeply related to changes in the authors, audiences, and artistic styles of the stories. Otogizōshi and Otogizōshi paintings can be seen as a reflection of social change, that is, a phenomenon that conveys the rise of a new class that bears the creation of culture. This exhibition will introduce the new charm of Otogizōshi and Otogizōshi paintings through a number of excellent works, mainly picture scrolls. Please enjoy the world of Otogizōshi stories, the breath of the people of the time depicted, the social conditions they contained, and the rich imagination of the people of the late medieval period to your heart's content. This is a used item, so there are signs of aging such as scratches, yellowing, tears, and folds. There are small scratches and faint creases on the cover. Please understand this before purchasing. Of course, there is no problem with reading it.