Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
By Lafcadio Hearn
Cover: Kohada Koheiji, from One Hundred Ghost Tales (c. 1831-32), colour woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1849)
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan; also archaic romanized Kwaidan), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn) that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi.
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Table of contents
- 1: The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōïchi
- 2: Oshidori
- 3: The Story of O-Tei
- 4: Ubazakura
- 5: Diplomacy
- 6: Of a Mirror and a Bell
- 7: Jikininki
- 8: Mujina
- 9: Rokuro-Kubi
- 10: A Dead Secret
- 11: Yuki-Onna
- 12: The Story of Aoyagi
- 13: Jiu-Roku-Zakura
- 14: Riki-Baka
- 15: Hi-Mawari
- 16: Butterflies
- 17: Mosquitoes
- 18: Ants
- 19: The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōïchi
- 20: Oshidori
- 21: The Story of O-Tei