{"product_id":"kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-9781481196130","title":"Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things","description":"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. - L.H. Tokyo, Japan, January 20th, 1904\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873395413266,"sku":"9781481196130","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba9c14e2-cde5-4571-a1c8-14efb14c0594.jpg?v=1748598641","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-9781481196130","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}