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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Kotto written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907717
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Kotto written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic collection of Japanese ghost and folk stories is of enormous importance to the field of Japanese studies. Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs, excite the curiosity and imagination of a master spinner of tales, and the result is Kotto, another Lafcadio Hearn classic about old Japan. Here Hearn spins tales from old Japanese books to illustrate some strange beliefs. They are only curios, he says laconically, but some of these legends will make your spine tingle and your heart trip faster, like the one about a waterfall called Yurei–Daki, or the Cascade of Ghosts. The ghosts were as real as their warnings, but a bold woman failed to heed them—a horrible mistake. Hearn could also find in the commonplace the stuff of which imperishable literature is spun. A drop of dew hangs quivering on the bamboo lattice of his study window. Its tiny sphere repeats the colors of the morning—of sky and field and far-off trees, of a cottage with children at play. But much more than the visible world is imaged by that dewdrop: the world invisible, of infinite mystery, is likewise repeated. Buddhism finds in such a dewdrop the symbol of that other microcosm called the Soul.
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Kottō written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs" by Lafcadio Hearn This volume begins with folk tales from Japan, including the last to be adapted by Masaki Kobayashi in his 1965 film celebrating Hearn's work, and follows into a handful of essays tangentially related to Japanese culture from Hearn's era. It includes: The Legend of Yurei-Daki, In a Cup of Tea, Common Sense, Ikiryō, Shiryō, The Story of O-Kamé, Story of a Fly, Story of a Pheasant, The Story of Chūgorō, A Woman's Diary, Heiké-gani, Fireflies, A Drop of Dew, Gaki, A Matter of Custom, Revery, Pathological, In the Dead of the Night, Kusa-Hibari, The Eater of Dreams.
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 375240647X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Kotto written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Kotto by Lafcadio Hearn
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0241381274
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Japanese Ghost Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest Fruits A Penguin Classic In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: "rokuro-kubi," whose heads separate from their bodies at night; "jikininki," or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless "mujina" who haunt lonely neighborhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in Japanese Ghost Stories. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907865
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Directory written by Isabella Bird and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1878, a decade after Japan was launched into the world of modern nations by the Meiji restoration of 1868, Isabella Lucy Bird set off alone to explore the interior. Ninety years ago Japan was still a mysterious country to Westerners. Miss Bird must have presented a fearsome sight to Japanese villagers when she came into view clad in American mountain dress and Wellington boots. However the country people liked her. She took off her boots before entering houses, she was of small stature, of quiet voice, and courteous! Many of the Japanese she met had never seen a European before. They were convinced all Westerners were uncouth barbarians. The Japan Isabella Bird describes is not the sentimental world of a Madame Butterfly, festooned with cherry blossoms. She describes real people in back country districts. Peasant life in Japan had never been easy but in early Meiji Japan, when the country was in a state of cultural shock following the opening of its doors to Western civilization, the drain of wealth from rural Japan to all-important Tokyo was particularly hard on the rural population. In this classic Japanese travelogue we see a side of Japan that is little known today.
Author : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Trübner's Bibliographical Catalogues written by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Elliot Griffis
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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dux Christus written by William Elliot Griffis and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William George Aston
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907644
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book History of Japanese Literature written by William George Aston and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Aston's A History of Japanese Literature has a permanent place on the bookshelves of all lovers of Japan. William George Aston, who pioneered in the translation of Japanese literature into English, made many original contributions to Japanese studies. His writing is fresh and informative. The periods reviewed range from the ancient days, when Japan's history was just dawning, to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when all aspects of Japanese life were being transformed. No aspect of Japanese culture escaped modification or change after Meiji, but Aston is mainly concerned with the profound literary heritage of Japan before Westernization. A long-time resident of Japan, who was intimately acquainted with Japanese books and scholars, he used the unique opportunities of his life to make available to English Readers the new world of Japanese literature. His scholarship is vast, yet he never loses the human touch, and he is always easy to read.
Author : British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Japanese Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the British Museum written by British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Japanese Printed Books and Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1899-1903 written by British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Detroit Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold S. Williams
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907377
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan written by Harold S. Williams and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable. These Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is a business man and a recognized authority on the history of the Foreign Concessions in Japan, a man who has resided here for over thirty-five years.
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536249
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Some Chinese Ghosts written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lafcadio Hearn was one of the most extraordinary figures in America literature, a journalist and novelist who became, later in life, a major literary icon in his adopted nation of japan. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887), a stylized retelling of ancient legends, was one of his earliest books, a foreshadowing of his later fascination with Asian themes. This collection of six stories reveals his deep fascination with the “weird beauty” of Chinese folk-tales. Because he himself knew little of the Chinese language, Hearn relied on European Sinologists to help him create his own versions and understand the historical and linguistic allusions. “To such great explorers,” he acknowledged in a preface, “the realm of Cathayan story belongs by right of discovery and conquest; yet the humbler traveller who follows wonderingly after them into the vast and mysterious pleasure-grounds of Chinese fancy may surely be permitted to cull a few of the marvellous flowers there growing.”
Author : Harold S. Williams
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902359
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Foreigners in Mikadoland written by Harold S. Williams and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859. It tells of the imposters, the eccentrics, and the scandals, no less than the achievements of the scholars, the merchants, and the diplomats who contributed so much to the development of modern Japan. Here you will meet Townsend Harris, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan, the Grand Duke Alexander, and many other less well known, but just as interesting figures such as the energetic Rev. Bailey, the remarkable Mr. McLeod, and the Misses Butterfly and Chrysanthemum. All these events are portrayed in a series of chapters, arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order, each woven around some of the happenings of those times. Carefully researched, all of these events are historically accurate in every detail, and are written in Mr. Williams' highly enjoyable style.
Author : Louis Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134238932
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn: Japan's Great Interpreter written by Louis Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive collection of excerpts exploring the psychological, spiritual, supernatural, social aspects of Japan. Including Lafcadio Hearn's Farewell and letters from 1894 to 1904.
