{"product_id":"kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things","title":"Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eMost of the following \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKwaidan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,—such as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYasō-Kidan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBukkyō-Hyakkwa-Zenshō\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKokon-Chomonshū\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTama-Sudaré\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHyaku-Monogatari\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable “Dream of Akinosuké,” 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 Chōfu, Nishitama-gōri, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1965 Japanese anthology horror film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKwaidan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, is named after and based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKoizumi Yakumo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (小泉 八雲, 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePatrick Lafcadio Hearn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν), was an Irish-Greek writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45922763374783,"sku":"a837d749-0fc0-4b71-aa68-b4b28e8d2a88","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/75be26a0037be5e22606c710121e6f9a.jpg?v=1785190859","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}