![]() At a moment when that country, under Emperor Meiji, was weathering the shock and upheaval of forced economic modernization, Hearn fell deeply in love with the nation’s past. “At age thirty-nine, Hearn travelled on a magazine assignment to Japan, and never came back. The tales included are reworkings of both written and oral Japanese traditions, including folk tales, legends, and superstitions. Published just months before Lafcadio Hearn’s death in 1904, Kwaidan features several stories and a brief nonfiction study on insects: butterflies, mosquitoes, and ants. ![]() A classic book of ghost stories from one of the world’s leading nineteenth-century writers, the author of In Ghostly Japan and Japanese Fairy Tales. ![]()
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