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Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books.... 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 Japanese 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.
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Kwaidan, Lafcadio Hearn
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- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- Kwaidan
- Subtitle
- Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 274
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Short Stories, Horror, Japan, Horror Short Stories, Japanese Literature
- First published
- 1903
- Original title
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books.... 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 Japanese 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.