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Lafcadio Hearn's retellings of Japanese ghost stories — Hōichi the earless, the snow woman, the rokuro-kubi, the jikininki, the faceless mujina — from the old books and from what was told to him in Matsue and Tokyo.

SUBJECTSJapanGhostsYōkai
TAGS#japan#hearn#yurei#yokai#kaidan#yuki-onna

CONTENTS · 30

  1. 1INTRODUCTION3 MIN
  2. 2KWAIDAN — THE STORY OF MIMI-NASHI-HŌÏCHI12 MIN
  3. 3OSHIDORI2 MIN
  4. 4THE STORY OF O-TEI4 MIN
  5. 5UBAZAKURA2 MIN
  6. 6DIPLOMACY3 MIN
  7. 7OF A MIRROR AND A BELL6 MIN
  8. 8JIKININKI6 MIN
  9. 9MUJINA2 MIN
  10. 10ROKURO-KUBI13 MIN
  11. 11A DEAD SECRET3 MIN
  12. 12YUKI-ONNA6 MIN
  13. 13THE STORY OF AOYAGI11 MIN
  14. 14JIU-ROKU-ZAKURA2 MIN
  15. 15THE DREAM OF AKINOSUKÉ7 MIN
  16. 16RIKI-BAKA2 MIN
  17. 17HI-MAWARI3 MIN
  18. 18HŌRAI4 MIN
  19. 19INSECT STUDIES — BUTTERFLIES — I3 MIN
  20. 20BUTTERFLIES — II8 MIN
  21. 21BUTTERFLIES — III2 MIN
  22. 22MOSQUITOES4 MIN
  23. 23ANTS — I3 MIN
  24. 24ANTS — II2 MIN
  25. 25ANTS — III3 MIN
  26. 26ANTS — IV3 MIN
  27. 27ANTS — V4 MIN
  28. 28ANTS — VI3 MIN
  29. 29ANTS — VII1 MIN
  30. 30Notes6 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #1210). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.