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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada on 27 June 1850. [3] His mother was a Greek named Rosa Cassimati, a native of the Greek island of Kythira, [4] while his father, Charles Bush Hearn, a British Army medical officer, was of Irish and English descent, [4] [5] who was stationed in Lefkada during the British protectorate of the United States of the Ionian Islands.
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]
Jikininki (食人鬼, "human-eating ghosts") appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits.In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in modern Japanese), are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat humans and ...
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.
' Ghost Story of the Snow Woman ') is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. [1] [2] [3] The film is an expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story as it appeared in the 1904 collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.
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.
"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.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a book written by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakumo, in 1894. It is a collection of impressionistic travel sketches, reporting on Hearn's first travels in Japan between years 1890 and 1893. [1] It is also the first works on Japanese culture Hearn published.