c:I[5808,["173","static/chunks/173-1a4bd29b66079ae8.js","107","static/chunks/107-46e7c6933df1d959.js","206","static/chunks/206-e1dd111232a15e24.js","350","static/chunks/app/author/%5Bid%5D/page-12067c059dbbe9dc.js"],"default"] d:I[7682,["173","static/chunks/173-1a4bd29b66079ae8.js","107","static/chunks/107-46e7c6933df1d959.js","206","static/chunks/206-e1dd111232a15e24.js","350","static/chunks/app/author/%5Bid%5D/page-12067c059dbbe9dc.js"],"default"] e:I[7268,["173","static/chunks/173-1a4bd29b66079ae8.js","107","static/chunks/107-46e7c6933df1d959.js","206","static/chunks/206-e1dd111232a15e24.js","350","static/chunks/app/author/%5Bid%5D/page-12067c059dbbe9dc.js"],"default"] f:T737,A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume.

Hearn’s tales span a variety of genres. Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Some are love stories in which the beloved is not what she appears to be: in “The Story of Aoyagi,” a young samurai narrowly escapes the wrath of his lord for marryin

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Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn