![]() With the help of a magazine columnist, Riku Nagase, she and her friends try to reveal the urban legend of the suicide song. When she finishes, Kanna commits suicide. Paperback (September 1st, 2015): $15. Anzu Natsuno hears her friend, Kanna, singing a weird song from the hall of their all-girls school.Free audio book that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes format for your portable. Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.Hearn was made a professor of English literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1895, and is today revered by the Japanese for providing significant insights into their own national character. ![]() ![]() ![]() This collection of supernatural tales includes "The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōīchi," "Ubazakura," and "Rokuro-Kubi," and other stories translated from old Japanese texts. Dutcher includes only the stories with research to back them up. "Kwaidan" is most commonly translated as weird or horror tales, but to assign one word to the people, places, ghosts and gods in this work, one can only use the word strange. Okinawa Kwaidan is a collection of 13 ghost stories. ![]() His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller of strange and wonderfully macabre tales. Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. ![]()
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