Kwaidan Japanese ghost stories
In Hearn's vivid retelling of classic Japanese folk tales -- further enhanced in this illustrated edition -- the spirit world swirls frighteningly close to human reality, the border between the two often being no more than a thin fog of dreams.
| Main Author: | Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fall River Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Author's note
- The story of Mimi-nashi-Hōïchi
- Oshidori
- The story of O-Tei
- Ubazakura
- Diplomacy
- Of a mirror and a bell
- Jikininki
- Mujina
- Rokuro-kubi
- A dead secret
- Yuki-onna
- The story of Aoyagi
- Jiu-roku-zakura
- The dream of Akinosuké
- Riki-baka
- Hi-mawari
- Hōrai; Insect studies: Butterflies
- Mosquitoes
- Ants.