“Ugetsu Monogatar” includes five volumes and nine mystery novels, melting Japanese folk tales and China fantasy story in a furnace, exquisite text, twisting and turning plot, novel style, rigorous structure, distinctive characters, vivid expression atmosphere, concise and vivid, full of artistic charm. In the history of Japanese literature, it plays a decisive role, known as the peak of the weird fiction before modern times in Japan, it is the representative work of “reading novels”.
“ Spring Rain Monogatari “is the companion with “ugetsu”, a total of ten stories, were all from Japanese history or history anecdotes, taking Monogatari stories as the carrier, skillfully combines the two major elements of the real history and the myths, with rich colors and satirical allegory. Works with Akinari Ueda's historical and literary point of view, are a condensed summary of his Months and years work, and also the work when Akinari Ueda was in his later years, the ideological understanding and the understanding of life all reached the apex of his life. Its influence is not “ugetsu”, but also in the history of Japanese literature left an important page.
