Kwaidan and Kotto: Japanese Ghost Stories and Curios
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 94 full-page plates by Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 – 1849, Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japanese ghost stories retold in English by a man who had married into the country and taken its citizenship: the woman of the snow, the blind minstrel whose body is written over with scripture, and a second volume of curios - insects, dreams, and the noises a house makes. Hearn heard most of these from his wife and set them down without softening the endings. Both books are here. Ninety-four plates, from Hokusai to Munch, gather the dusk, demons and drifting figures that haunt these tales.
Complete and unabridged, with 94 full-page plates by Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 – 1849, Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japanese ghost stories retold in English by a man who had married into the country and taken its citizenship: the woman of the snow, the blind minstrel ...
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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, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, and In Ghostly 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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