Найти книгу: "In Ghostly Japan"

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,» «Furisode,» «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.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Japan : containing illustrations of the character, manners, customs, religion, dress, amusement, commerce, agriculture etc. of the people of that empire : with 20 coloured engravings / edited by Frederic Shoberl».

This is a collection of Japanese fairy tales translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki based on a version written in Japanese by Sadanami Sanjin. According to Ozaki, “These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.” Ozaki freely added to and changed the original stories for color and background.1.0