Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, "Tales of Yamato") is a collection of 173 short stories which give details about life in the imperial court in the 9th and 10th centuries. It is an uta monogatari (a work combining narrative fiction with waka poetry) from the 10th-century Japan. The exact date of the completion of the text is unknown, but the majority of the text was completed in the year 951 by an unknown author. Source: Wikipedia (en)