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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan, also Kwaidan (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. [1] It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi. [2]
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada on 27 June 1850. [2] His mother was a Greek named Rosa Cassimati, a native of the Greek island of Kythira, [3] while his father, Charles Bush Hearn, a British Army medical officer, was of Irish and English descent, [3] [4] who was stationed in Lefkada during the British protectorate of the United States of the Ionian Islands.
"The Dream of Akinosuke" (あきのすけの夢, Akinosuke no Yume) is a Japanese folktale, made famous outside Japan by Lafcadio Hearn's translation of the story in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Kwaidan (Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. ' Ghost Stories ') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi.It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named.
It takes place, “nearly five hundred years ago”. Considering Kwaidan was first published in 1904, the story is most likely from the Muromachi Period in Japanese history (c.1336-1573). The protagonist is said in the tale to have served well in the Eikyō War, which took place in 1438, during the Muromachi period.
Hōichi-dō (Hōichi's shrine) in Akama Shrine. Hoichi the Earless (耳なし芳一, Mimi-nashi Hōichi) is the name of a well-known figure from Japanese folklore. His story is well known in Japan, and the best-known English translation first appeared in the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.
In 1964, Kobayashi made Kwaidan (1964), his first color film, a collection of four ghost stories drawn from books by Lafcadio Hearn. Kwaidan won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival , [ 15 ] and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film .
The word was popularised in English by Lafcadio Hearn in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.The spelling kwaidan is a romanization based on an archaic spelling of the word in kana - Hearn used it since the stories in the book were equally archaic.