Folklore

Pages

• Ancient Tales and Folk-lore of Japan — Richard Gordon Smith — Richard Gordon Smith's 1918 collection of fifty-seven Japanese legends and ghost tales, gathered from local storytellers and set in named, specific places.
• In Ghostly Japan — Lafcadio Hearn — Lafcadio Hearn's 1899 essays and sketches on Japanese ghost-lore, popular Buddhism, and the beliefs surrounding death, from a dream of a mountain of skulls to proverbs, poetry, and a tale of a tengu.
• Japanese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales — Mary F. Nixon-Roulet — Mary F. Nixon-Roulet's complete 1908 collection of thirty-three English literary retellings of Japanese folk stories, legends, and fairy tales.
• Kwaidan — Lafcadio Hearn — Lafcadio Hearn's 1904 collection of seventeen retold Japanese ghost stories, from Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi and Yuki-Onna to the Dream of Akinosuke, closing with his essay on the folklore of butterflies, mosquitoes, and ants.