Audiobook: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- Download 00 Introduction audio
- Download 01 The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi audio
- Download 02 Oshidori audio
- Download 03 The Story of O-Tei audio
- Download 04 Ubazakura audio
- Download 05 Diplomacy audio
- Download 06 Of a Mirror and a Bell audio
- Download 07 Jikininki audio
- Download 08 Mujina audio
- Download 09 Rokuro-Kubi audio
- Download 10 A Dead Secret audio
- Download 11 Yuki-Onna audio
- Download 12 The Story of Aoyagi audio
- Download 13 Jiu-Roku-Zakura audio
- Download 14 The Dream of Akinosuke audio
- Download 15 Riki-Baka audio
- Download 16 Hi-Mawari audio
- Download 17 Horai audio
- Download 18 Butterflies audio
- Download 19 Insect Studies - Mosquitoes audio
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Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. 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 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… The incident of "Riki-Baka" was a personal experience; and I wrote it down almost exactly as it happened, changing only a family-name mentioned by the Japanese narrator.
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