This is a traditional story "kwaidan"—a Japanese ghost story—that Lafcadio Hearn shared in one of his books entitled Kwaidan....

Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn wrote one of his most popular books, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, just befor...

小泉八雲 “Lafcadio Hearn is almost as Japanese as haiku.”              -- From Tuttle’s “publisher f...