https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_Monogatari
a collection of 173 short stories which give details about life in the imperial court in the 9th and 10th centuries.[1]
Tahara, Mildred. Tales of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980. ISBN 0-8248-0617-4.