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Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan

Name: Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
Author: Richard Smith
ISBN: 9781410209306

by Richard Smith

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Overview

The stories are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries kept by the author during almost nine years in Japan (collecting exhibits for the British Museum) during the latter part of the nineteenth century. In total, there are 57 different ghost stories, telling tales of love and passion, revenge, strange ghosts and eerie gods, mountains, trees and flowers, history, magic, dragons, murder and suicide.