Kwaidan :
Hearn, Lafcadio,
Kwaidan : stories of ghosts and other strange things / Lafcadio Hearn. - xiv, 125 pages ; 20 cm
The Story of Mimi-nashi-hoichi
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 Akinosuke
Riki-baka
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief study on insects. Hearn declares in his introduction, that most of these stories were translated from old Japanese texts (probably with the help of his wife, Setsu Koizumi). He also states that one of the stories - Yuki-onna - was told to him by a farmer in Musashi Province, and this was, to the best of his knowledge, the first record of it.
9789387164840 (pbk.) Rs199.00
Ghost stories.
Children's stories, Japanese.
828 HEA / 014228
Kwaidan : stories of ghosts and other strange things / Lafcadio Hearn. - xiv, 125 pages ; 20 cm
The Story of Mimi-nashi-hoichi
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 Akinosuke
Riki-baka
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief study on insects. Hearn declares in his introduction, that most of these stories were translated from old Japanese texts (probably with the help of his wife, Setsu Koizumi). He also states that one of the stories - Yuki-onna - was told to him by a farmer in Musashi Province, and this was, to the best of his knowledge, the first record of it.
9789387164840 (pbk.) Rs199.00
Ghost stories.
Children's stories, Japanese.
828 HEA / 014228