In Ghostly Japan: Legends and Observations from Japan
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Utagawa Kunisada, Ogata Kōrin and Ogata Kenzan. Japanese ghost stories and reflections on incense, silkworms and Buddhist proverbs. Hearn wrote these in Tokyo as a Japanese citizen married to a samurai's daughter, and the essays between the tales are as strange as the tales. This edition adds a gallery of 53 plates by Kunisada, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Goshun, and seven restored and coloured illustrations.
Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Utagawa Kunisada, Ogata Kōrin and Ogata Kenzan. Japanese ghost stories and reflections on incense, silkworms and Buddhist proverbs. Hearn wrote these in Tokyo as a Japanese citizen married to a samurai's daughter, and the essays between the tal...
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer born on the Greek island of Lefkada to a Greek mother and an Irish father, raised in Dublin, and a newspaperman in Cincinnati and New Orleans before he sailed to Japan at forty. He married there, took the name Koizumi Yakumo, and taught literature in Tokyo. His works include Kwaidan, Kotto, In Ghostly Japan, and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer born on the Greek island of Lefkada to a Greek mother and an Irish father, raised in Dublin, and a newspaperman in Cincinnati and New Orleans before he sailed to Japan at forty. He married there, took the name Koizumi Yakumo, and taught literature in Tokyo....
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