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Title: In Ghostly Japan
Author: HEARN LAFCADIO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/12/2019
Imprint: DOVER PUBLISHERS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
At the turn of the twentieth century, Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was instrumental in introducing
Western readers to Japanese culture and literature. Raised in Dublin and a longtime resident of
the United States, the writer, translator, and teacher arrived in Japan in 1890 and spent the rest
of his life there. His writings from Japan became his most popular works, and he was famed not
only as an interpreter of Japanese myths but also as a teller of strange and macabre tales.
This volume offers an eerie collection of Hearn’s memorable depictions of the folklore,
superstitions, and traditions of old Japan. Its chilling tales of the spirit world are interwoven with
nonfiction reflections on the country’s idioms, Buddhist proverbs, translations of haiku, and the
ritual uses of incense. The spooky stories are populated by a pilgrim who attempts to climb a
mountain of skulls, a dying wife who bequeaths her rival a sinister legacy, a ghostly beauty who
leaves the world of the dead to revisit her samurai lover, and other mysterious characters from
Japanese folklore.
ISBN: 9780486837338
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm