In Ghostly Japan
eBook - ePub

In Ghostly Japan

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Ghostly Japan

About this book

At the turn of the twentieth century, Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was instrumental in introducing Western readers to Japanese culture and literature. Raised in Dublin and a longtime resident of the United States, the writer, translator, and teacher arrived in Japan in 1890 and spent the rest of his life there. His writings from Japan became his most popular works, and he was famed not only as an interpreter of Japanese myths but also as a teller of strange and macabre tales.
This volume offers an eerie collection of Hearn's memorable depictions of the folklore, superstitions, and traditions of old Japan. Its chilling tales of the spirit world are interwoven with nonfiction reflections on the country's idioms, Buddhist proverbs, translations of haiku, and the ritual uses of incense. The spooky stories are populated by a pilgrim who attempts to climb a mountain of skulls, a dying wife who bequeaths her rival a sinister legacy, a ghostly beauty who leaves the world of the dead to revisit her samurai lover, and other mysterious characters from Japanese folklore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Fragment
  8. Furisodé
  9. Incense
  10. The Magical Incense
  11. A Story of Divination
  12. Silkworms
  13. A Passional Karma
  14. The Peony Lantern
  15. Footprints of the Buddha
  16. S’rîpadâ-tracing at Dentsu-In, Koishikawa, Tōkyō
  17. Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan
  18. Ululation
  19. Bits of Poetry
  20. Square and Triangle
  21. Japanese Buddhist Proverbs
  22. Jizō
  23. Emma Dai-ō
  24. Suggestion
  25. Ingwa-banashi
  26. Story of a Tengu
  27. At Yaidzu
  28. The Lights of the Dead