Japanese tales of Lafcadio Hearn /
"Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Or...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Oddly modern fairy tales
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Table of Contents:
- From Out of the East: reveries and studies in new Japan (1897). The dream of a summer day
- From Shadowings (1900). A legend of Fugen-Bosatsu ; The screen-maiden ; The corpse-rider ; The sympathy of Benten ; The gratitude of the Samébito ; The reconciliation
- From A Japanese miscellany: strange stories, folklore gleanings, studies here & there (1901). Of a promise kept ; The story of Umétsu Chūbei ; The story of Kōgi the priest ; The story of Kwashin Koji
- From Kwaidan: stories and studies of strange things (1904). The story of Mimi-Nashi Hōichi ; Oshidori ; The story of O-Tei ; Ubazakura ; Diplomacy ; Or a mirror and a bell ; Jikininki ; Mujina ; Rokuro-Kubi ; A dead secret ; Yuki-Onna ; The story of Aoyagi ; Jiu-Roku-Zakura ; The dream of Akinosuké ; Riki-Baka ; Hi-Mawari - Hōrai.