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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 | 9781596050150 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1596050152 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.00 x 0.56 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $9.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 248 pages |
| Publisher | Cosimo Classics |
| Published On | 2004-06-14 |
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Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 248 p. Intended for a juvenile audience.
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