Kwaidan (eBook)

Lafcadio Hearn (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
155 Seiten
Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-7481-3110-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Most 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.10.2018
• Sprache: deutsch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: japan fantasy • japan legend • japan myths • Samurai
• ISBN-10: 3-7481-3110-0 / 3748131100
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7481-3110-6 / 9783748131106