Kwaidan
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780844622286
Hardcover|9780844622286
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Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books.... Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable "Dream of Akinosuke," for example, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the Japanese story-teller, in every case, has so recolored and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it.... One queer tale, "Yuki-Onna," was told me by a farmer of Chofu, Nishitama-gori, in Musashi province, as a legend of his native village. Whether it has ever been written in Japanese I do not know; but the extraordinary belief which it records used certainly to exist in most parts of Japan, and in many curious forms.
| ISBN-13 | 9780844622286 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0844622281 |
| List Price | $4.50 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Publisher | Peter Smith Publisher, Incorporated |
| Published On | 1983-07-01 |
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