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In ghostly Japan / Lafcadio Hearn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
- Series:
- Tuttle classics.
- Tuttle classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Japan.
- Folklore.
- Buddhism--Japan.
- Buddhism.
- Japan--Social life and customs--1868-1912.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st Tuttle ed.
- Place of Publication:
- North Clarendon, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., 1971.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Ghostly Japan collects twelve stories from celebrated author Lafcadio Hearn. Some of these stories are ghostly and ghastly, while others are wonderfully benign. Whether he's telling a ghost story or explaining a Buddhist proverb, Hearn's writings are never less than enthralling.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Publisher's Foreword; In Ghostly Japan; Furisode; Incense; A Story of Divination; Silkworms; A Passional Karma; Footprints of the Buddha; Ululation; Bits of Poetry; Japanese Buddhist Proverbs; Suggestion; lngwa-banashi; Story of a Tengu; At Yaidzu
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4629-0048-8
- OCLC:
- 746746785
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