In ghostly Japan

Resource Information

The work In ghostly Japan represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

In ghostly Japan

Creator

• Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Ghost stories, Japanese
• Japan -- Social life and customs
• Electronic books
• Folklore -- Japan
• Buddhism -- Japan

Language

eng

Summary

Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller of strange and wonderfully macabre tales. In Ghostly Japan is a wonderful collection of twelve ghostly stories and explorations of Shinto and Buddhist proverbs: Fragment, Furisod<U+00da>, Incense, A Story of Divination, Silkworms, A Passional Karma, Footprints of Buddha, Ululation, Bits of poetry, Japanese Buddhist Proverbs, Suggestion, Ingwa-Banashi, Story of a Tengu, and At Yaidzu. Hearn was made a professor of English literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1895, and is today revered by the Japanese for providing significant insights into their own national character

Member of

• Western books on Asia, Japan, fiches 4,541-4,543

Cataloging source

Midwest

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Stories and sketches of Japan / by Lafcadio Hearn

Target audience

adult