Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn, Edited by Andrei Codrescu (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales, Book 19)
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Overview: A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume.
Hearn’s tales span a variety of genres. Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Some are love stories in which the beloved is not what she appears to be: in “The Story of Aoyagi,” a young samurai narrowly escapes the wrath of his lord for marrying without permission, only to discover that his wife is the spirit of a willow tree. Throughout this collection, Hearn’s reverence for Japan shines through, and his stories provide insights into the country’s artistic and cultural heritage.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
From Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1897)
The Dream of a Summer Day
From Shadowings (1900)
A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu
The Screen-Maiden
The Corpse-Rider
The Sympathy of Benten
The Gratitude of the Samébito
The Reconciliation
From A Japanese Miscellany: Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here & There (1901)
Of a Promise Kept
The Story of Umétsu Chūbei
The Story of Kōgi the Priest
The Story of Kwashin Koji
From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi
Oshidori
The Story of O-Tei
Ubazakura
Diplomacy
Of a Mirror and a Bell
Jikininki
Mujina
Rokuro-Kubi
A Dead Secret
Yuki-Onna
The Story of Aoyagi
Jiu-Roku-Zakura
The Dream of Akinosuké
Riki-Baka
Hi-Mawari
Hōrai
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Overview: A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume.
Hearn’s tales span a variety of genres. Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Some are love stories in which the beloved is not what she appears to be: in “The Story of Aoyagi,” a young samurai narrowly escapes the wrath of his lord for marrying without permission, only to discover that his wife is the spirit of a willow tree. Throughout this collection, Hearn’s reverence for Japan shines through, and his stories provide insights into the country’s artistic and cultural heritage.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
From Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1897)
The Dream of a Summer Day
From Shadowings (1900)
A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu
The Screen-Maiden
The Corpse-Rider
The Sympathy of Benten
The Gratitude of the Samébito
The Reconciliation
From A Japanese Miscellany: Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here & There (1901)
Of a Promise Kept
The Story of Umétsu Chūbei
The Story of Kōgi the Priest
The Story of Kwashin Koji
From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi
Oshidori
The Story of O-Tei
Ubazakura
Diplomacy
Of a Mirror and a Bell
Jikininki
Mujina
Rokuro-Kubi
A Dead Secret
Yuki-Onna
The Story of Aoyagi
Jiu-Roku-Zakura
The Dream of Akinosuké
Riki-Baka
Hi-Mawari
Hōrai
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