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Hearn's earlier collection: ghost stories, Buddhist proverbs, incense and the fox — his essays on the Japanese dead as the living still speak of them.

SUBJECTSJapanGhostsBuddhism
TAGS#japan#hearn#ghosts#kitsune#buddhism

CONTENTS · 39

  1. 1Fragment3 MIN
  2. 2Furisodé4 MIN
  3. 3Incense — I2 MIN
  4. 4Incense — II3 MIN
  5. 5Incense — III3 MIN
  6. 6Incense — IV8 MIN
  7. 7Incense — V3 MIN
  8. 8A Story of Divination5 MIN
  9. 9Silkworms — I2 MIN
  10. 10Silkworms — II4 MIN
  11. 11Silkworms — III2 MIN
  12. 12A Passional Karma1 MIN
  13. 13A Passional Karma — I2 MIN
  14. 14A Passional Karma — II2 MIN
  15. 15A Passional Karma — III5 MIN
  16. 16A Passional Karma — IV2 MIN
  17. 17A Passional Karma — V1 MIN
  18. 18A Passional Karma — VI2 MIN
  19. 19A Passional Karma — VII3 MIN
  20. 20A Passional Karma — VIII3 MIN
  21. 21A Passional Karma — IX3 MIN
  22. 22A Passional Karma — X1 MIN
  23. 23A Passional Karma — XI5 MIN
  24. 24Footprints of the Buddha — I7 MIN
  25. 25Footprints of the Buddha — II1 MIN
  26. 26Ululation9 MIN
  27. 27Bits of Poetry — I2 MIN
  28. 28Bits of Poetry — II3 MIN
  29. 29Bits of Poetry — III2 MIN
  30. 30Bits of Poetry — IV1 MIN
  31. 31WINTER-SCENE1 MIN
  32. 32Japanese Buddhist Proverbs18 MIN
  33. 33Suggestion3 MIN
  34. 34Ingwa-banashi6 MIN
  35. 35Story of a Tengu5 MIN
  36. 36At Yaidzu — I3 MIN
  37. 37At Yaidzu — II4 MIN
  38. 38At Yaidzu — III2 MIN
  39. 39At Yaidzu — IV3 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (In Ghostly Japan). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #8128). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.