{"product_id":"kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-1983504300","title":"Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1983504300\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hearn, Lafcadio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,-such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable Dream of Akinosuke, for example, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the story-teller, in every case, has so recolored and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it... One queer tale, Yuki-Onna, was told me by a farmer of Chofu, Nishitama-gori, in Musashi province, as a legend of his native village. Whether it has ever been written in Japanese I do not know; but the extraordinary belief which it records used certainly to exist in most parts of Japan, and in many curious forms... The incident of Riki-Baka was a personal experience; and I wrote it down almost exactly as it happened, changing only a family-name mentioned by the Japanese narrator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52275566379296,"sku":"NEW1983504300","price":7.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81GlcFZCgKL.jpg?v=1788089378","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-1983504300","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}