Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781983504303)

Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books, -such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable "Dream of Akinosuke," for example, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the story-teller, in every case, has so recolored and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it... One queer tale, "Yuki-Onna," was told me by a farmer of Chofu, Nishitama-gori, in Musashi province, as a legend of his native village. Whether it has ever been written in Japanese I do not know; but the extraordinary belief which it records used certainly to exist in most parts of Japan, and in many curious forms... The incident of "Riki-Baka" was a personal experience; and I wrote it down almost exactly as it happened, changing only a family-name mentioned by the Japanese narrator

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN-10: 1983504300
ISBN-13: 9781983504303
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2018
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d