A great collection of old shool Japanese horror movies, although I don't know what exactly makes them "Gothic". The Snow Woman is based on the same Lafcadio Hearn story as the shorter segment in Kwaidan.

#horror #japanese #kwaidan #lafcadiohearn

What do ‘tengu’ demons, long-necked ‘rokurobi’ monsters and ghost stories have in common? They’re the core of a tourism push for Shimane and Tottori prefectures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/02/22/travel/shimane-tottori-ghost-stories-folklore/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #travel #yokai #supernatural #mizukishigeru #lafcadiohearn

Ghostly Tales‬ of Japan, my collection of 30 original stories, was written in response to my son's request for some scary stories. Available on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Andi-Brooks/dp/B08BWGPQFC
#AndiBrooks #ghoststories #yokai #yurie #GhostlyTalesofJapan #Japaneseghosts #Shortstories #Books #anthology
#Kaidan #LafcadioHearn

Fun fact:
Das dickste Ding der »Collected Works of #LafcadioHearn« bei Delphi ist übrigens sein Kochbuch mit Kreolischen Rezepten.

I saw myself reading a book - This collage prose poem was derived from passages of #LafcadioHearn’s ‘Readings from a Dream-book’.

#Asemic #AsemicArt #Poetry #AsemicWriting #ProsePoem #Phantasmagoria #Dreamscape #Dream #CollagePoem #DeconstructedText #AsemicText #AsemicBook #Halloween #Octobereen #PoemsForHalloween #Art #DigitalArt

https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/i-saw-myself-reading-a-book/

Hab mich nun auch getraut den #LafcadioHearn-Aufsatz vom Christian Hoffmann zu lesen. Jupp, ist gut geworden. Klar gibts ein paar Stellen, wo ich Kunstgewerbe-Handwerker nochmal schleifen und polieren könnt. Aber Hearn feiern find ich ja immer gut, grad wenn’s sich flott lesen lässt wie hier.

Dennoch: auch Hearn ist nicht ›makellos und unberührbar‹ … auch er ›nur‹ ein Mensch. Hochinteressant z.B. sein Zerwürfnis mit Ex-Mentor-Freund Chamberlain. https://www.greenshinto.com/2014/08/21/hearn-v-chamberlain/
@frankboehmert @lapismont

Notice that, even in Tokyo, I have seen people walking their dogs with flashlights. They put neon lights on the dog. This makes me think that the demand for light is everywhere, but in Japan the following principle seems to reign:
If you want light, pay for it. https://silviazuletaromano.com/english/nikko-reflections-on-the-onsen-culture/ #japan #japaneseonsen #tanizaki #lafcadiohearn #japaneseliterature #nikko

I often saw this book in stores and ignored it because I wrongly assumed that it was just another rehash of Kwaidan. It is actually a very good collection of Hearn's ghostly tales culled from his various books.
#LafcadioHearn #KoizumiYakumo #Kwaidan #JapaneseGhostStories

A part animation/part live action retelling of the tale of Yuki-onna in English is now available to watch on NHK World-Japan.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4040006/?cid=wohk-fb-org_vod_4040006_dps-202312-001&fbclid=IwAR1DZHgfoD-oTMlKHJRzdo7j-u2GU_goqeGLXD55cioYsL0zzFxOaOPbnI8
#Yukionna #SnowWoman #Japanesehorror #Japanesefolktales #yokai #kaidan #Kwaidan #LafcadioHearn #KoizumiYakumo #Japanesemyths

Japanese fairy tales
Tanuki Stories - public domain

Grace James
https://archive.org/details/greenwillowother00jame/page/n43/mode/2up
Georgene Faulkner
https://archive.org/details/littlepeachlingo00geor/page/71/mode/thumb
William Griffis
https://archive.org/details/fireflysloversot00grif/page/n168/mode/thumb
Andrew Lang
https://archive.org/details/the-crimson-fairy-book/mode/2up
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/142/the-crimson-fairy-book/5145/the-magic-kettle/
Teresa Peirce Williston
https://archive.org/details/cu31924023266947/page/n11/mode/2up
T.H. James
https://archive.org/details/japanesefairytalse01no16thom/mode/1up
Lafcadio Hearn
https://archive.org/details/hearn_lafcadio_1850_1904_japanese_fairy_tales/mode/1up
A.B. Mitford
https://archive.org/details/TalesOfOldJapan/page/n12/mode/1up

#JapaneseFairyTales #tanuki
#WilliamGriffis #TeresaPeirceWilliston #LafcadioHearn #ABMitford

On Wednesday, December 27 at 11:10/ 16:10/ 21:10 and Thursday, December 28 at 3:25, there will be a reading of Yuki-onna on NHK World-Japan https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/special/episode/202312271110/
#Yukionna #LafcadioHearn #KoizumiYakumo #Kwaidan #Yokai #Kaidan #NHKWorldJapan #Japanesefolktales #Japanesefolkstories #Japanesehorror

My wife made some keyrings based on the drawings of Lafcadio Hearn
#lafcadiohearn #koizumiyakumo #woodburning #woodburningart #yokai #yurei #keyring #keyholder #keyfob #kwaidan #kaidan

A new biography on Lafcadio Hearn charts the course of the writer’s 54-year life and shows how his years in Cincinnati and Japan were formative periods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/10/08/books/the-outsider-lafcadio-hearn/?utm_content=buffercf768&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #books #lafcadiohearn #stevekemme

Un 26 de septiembre
muere en Tokio
✒️#LafcadioHearn (1850-1904)
Escritor británico,
adelantado divulgador de la cultura japonesa en occidente.
Vivió en Japón desde 1890, donde se casó y nacionalizó, con el nombre de Koizumi Yakumo
Propongo estas recomendables ediciones de la editorial asturiana Satori, especializada en #Cultura y #Literatura japonesas👇

#DeWitt2023 Donald Richie wrote the English subtitles for Akira Kurosawa's films Throne of Blood (1957), Red Beard (1965), Kagemusha (1980) and Dreams (1990)! #Kurasawa #DonaldRichie #LafcadioHearn #TheLastSamurai #JapaneseTranslation

Inventariar es iluminar. Un conjunto ordenado de objetos que tienen etiquetas. Y ocupan espacio, no solo físico, sino mental. Antes no eran tema. No existían. Ahora son un mundo. https://silviazuletaromano.com/la-guarida-de-ficcion/sobre-categorias-e-inventarios/ #borges #lafcadiohearn

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan - Japan Powered

https://www.japanpowered.com/book-reviews/lafcadio-hearns-japan

>Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) offered a view into Japan during the Meiji Restoration with his books.

#Japan #JapaneseCulture #Books #JapaneseBooks #JapaneseLiterature #LafcadioHearn #LafcadioHearnsJapan #Meiji #MeijiRestoration #JapaneseHistory #History #Review #BookReview

Latest read, The Eternal Haunter (1898) and Fragment (1899) by Lafcadio Hearn from Japanese Ghost Stories; tales of the tree spirit, a Japanese Venus-- and of a monk who climbs a mountain only to realize it is made of the skulls of his past lives
298-299 of #400FantasyStories #Books #JapaneseFolkTales #LafcadioHearn #Fantasy

A fascinating programme about Lafcadio Hearn's love of insects and the Japanese vocabulary related to them. My family and I were lucky enough to guided around the wonderful "The Poetry of Insects" exhibition at the Lafcadio Memorial Museum in Matsue by Bon Koizumi, great-grandson of Lafcadio Hearn, and his wife Shoko when we visited Matsue last year.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/magicaljapanese/20230222/2092025/?cid=wohk-fb-org_site_2092025_dps-202302-001&fbclid=IwAR0vt66YxljiLyo3ZRJZ0jiMPKRscRpl9S8Piv5D43SOr_MPP7aKSv0tnqQ
#Insects #LafcadioHearn #KoizumiYakumo #Kwaidan #小泉八雲記念館 #LafcadioHearnMemorialMuseum #Matsue #松江市

I wandered into the Wikipedia article on Hearn and started reading his biography. I had no idea what I was in for. It is quite a ride! If you don't already know the story of Hearn's life, I highly recommend reading it so you can experience the inexorably widening eyes and dropping jaw for yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn

#LafcadioHearn #LifeStory