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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 3 hours and 51 minutes

Language: English

Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. 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 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… The incident of "Riki-Baka" was a personal experience; and I wrote it down almost exactly as it happened, changing only a family-name mentioned by the Japanese narrator. (Summary by L. Hearn, from the Introduction to the book)

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Introduction (Vilayvanh)
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Oshidori (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
The Story of O-tei (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Ubazakura (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Diplomacy (Availle)
Of A Mirror and a Bell (Scott Carpenter)
Jikininki (Scott Carpenter)
Mujina (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Rokuro-Kubi (Scott Carpenter)
A Dead Secret (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Yuki-Onna (Availle)
The Story of Aoyagi (Availle)
Jiu-Roku-Zakura (Scott Carpenter)
The Dream of Akinosuke (Scott Carpenter)
Riki-Baka (Scott Carpenter)
Hi-Mawari (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Horai (Martin Geeson)
Insect Studies - Butterflies (Availle)
Insect Studies - Mosquitoes (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Insect Studies - Ants (Scott Carpenter)
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