Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes even more interesting when you dive into folklore of places away from your own culture.
This volume is a collection of ancient Japanese tales. We hear of ordinary mortals interacting with the spirit world, sometimes to their benefit, sometimes to their doom, we hear of love and hate, and of war and peace. Some of the stories will be entirely new to most readers, some of them will be uncannily familiar. - Summary by Carolin
PrefaceThe Golden HairpinThe Spirit Of The Willow TreeGhost of the Violet WellGhost Story of the Flute's TombA Haunted Temple in Inaba ProvinceA Carp Gives a Lesson in PerseveranceLegends Told by a Fisherman on Lake Biwa, At ZezeA Miraculous Sword'The Procession of Ghosts'A Faithful ServantPrince Hosokawa's Most Valuable Title-DeedsThe Story of Kato SayemonGreat Fire Caused by a Lady's DressHistory of Awoto FujitsunaA Life Saved by a Spider and Two DovesMurakami Yoshiteru's FaithfulnessA Story of Oki IslandsCape of the Woman's SwordHow Yogodayu Won A BattleThe Isolated or Desolated IslandChikubu Island, Lake BiwaReincarnationThe Diving-Woman of Oiso BayTheft And Recovery of a Golden KwannonSaigyo Hoshi's RockHow Masakuni Regained His SightSagami BayThe King of TorijimaThe Perpetual Life-Giving WineThe Hermit's CaveYosoji's Camellia TreeWhalesThe Holy Cherry Tree of Musubi-no-Kami TempleA Story of Mount KanzanreiWhite Bone MountainA Stormy Night's TragedyThe Kakemono Ghost of Aki ProvinceWhite SakéThe Blind BeautyThe Secret of Iidamachi PondThe Spirit of YenokiThe Spirit of the Lotus LilyThe Temple of the AwabiHuman FirefliesThe Chrysanthemum HermitThe Princess PeonyThe Memorial Cherry TreeThe 'Jirohei' Cherry Tree, KyotoThe Snow GhostThe Snow TombThe Dragon-Shaped Plum TreeThe Chessboard Cherry TreeThe Precious Sword 'Natori no Hoto'The White Serpent GodA Festival of the Awabi FishThe Spirit of a Willow Tree Saves Family HonourThe Camphor Tree Tomb
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