Suggestion : SUGGESTION I HAD the privilege of meeting him in Tky, where he was making a brief stay on his way to India;--and we took a long walk together, and talked of Eastern religions, about which he knew incomparably more than I. Whatever I could tell him concerning local beliefs, he would comment up...
Title Page : IN GHOSTLY JAPAN {p. 2} IN GHOSTLY JAPAN Yoru bakari Miru mono nari to Omou-nayo! Hiru sa yum no Ukiyo nari-kri. Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night: the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day. JAPANESE POEM. IN GHOSTLY JAPAN FRAGMENT .............. AND it w...
Image : IMAGE INDEX IN GHOSTLY JAPAN Frontispiece: The Mountain of Skulls The Magical Incense The Peony Lantern S'rpad-Tracing at Dentsu-In, Koishikawa, Tky Sh-Ek-H-Kwan Square and Triangle Jiz Emma Dai- The Lights of the Dead
List Of Illustrations : LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FULL PAGE THE MOUNTAIN OF SKULLS Frontispiece THE MAGICAL INCENSE To face page 43 THE PEONY LANTERN 80 THE LIGHTS OF THE DEAD 230 Illustrations in the Text S'RPAD-TRACING AT DENTSU-IN, KOISHIKAWA, TKY 121 SH-EK-H-KWAN 124 SQUARE AND TRIANGLE 104 JIZ 178 EMMA, DAI- 179 {p. 1}
Furisod'e : FURISOD RECENTLY, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a "furisod", or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called "murasaki", hanging before one of the shops. It was a robe such as might have been worn by a lady of rank in the time...
Japanese Buddhist Proverbs : JAPANESE BUDDHIST PROVERBS AS representing that general quality of moral experience which remains almost unaffected by social modifications of any sort, the proverbial sayings of a people must always possess a special psychological interest for thinkers. In this kind of folklore the oral...
Bits Of Poetry : BITS OF POETRY I LONG a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a universal fashion of emotional utterance, we should naturally suppose the common ideal of life to be a noble one. However poorly the upper classes of such a people might compare with those of other nations, we could scarcely...
Story Of A Tengu : STORY OF A TENGU IN the days of the Emperor Go-Reizen, there was a holy priest living in the temple of Seito, on the mountain called Hiyei-Zan, near Kyto. One summer day this good priest, after a visit to the city, was returning to his temple by way of Kita-no-Oji, when he saw some boys...
Ingwa Banashi : INGWA-BANASHI THE daimy's wife was dying, and knew that she was dying. She had not been able to leave her bed since the early autumn of the tenth Bunsei. It was now the fourth month of the twelfth Bunsei,--the year 1829 by Western counting; and the cherry-trees were blossoming. She thought...
A Story Of Divination : A STORY OF DIVINATION I ONCE knew a fortune-teller who really believed in the science that he professed. He had learned, as a student of the old Chinese philosophy, to believe in divination long before he thought of practising it. During his youth he had been in the service of a wealthy daimy, but...
Untitled : IN GHOSTLY JAPAN By LAFCADIO HEARN Little, Brown, And Co., Boston [1899] Title Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations In Ghostly Japan Furisod Incense A Story of Divination Silkworms A Passional Karma Footprints of the Buddha Ululation Bits of Poetry Japanese Buddhist Proverbs Suggesti...
Footprints Of The Buddha : FOOTPRINTS OF THE BUDDHA I WAS recently surprised to find, in Anderson's catalogue of Japanese and Chinese paintings in the British Museum, this remarkable statement:--"It is to be noted that in Japan the figure of the Buddha is never represented by the feet, or pedestal alone, as in the Amravt...
Title Page. Part 1 : IN GHOSTLY JAPAN By LAFCADIO HEARN Little, Brown, And Co., Boston [1899] {scanned , February, 2002} {p. v} To MRS. ALICE VON BEHRENS for Auld Lang Syne {p. vii}
Ululation : ULULATION SHE is lean as a wolf, and very old,--the white bitch that guards my gate at night. She played with most of the young men and women of the neighborhood when they were boys and girls. I found her in charge of my present dwelling on the day that I came to occupy it. She had guarded...
Incense : INCENSE I. I SEE, rising out of darkness, a lotos in a vase. Most of the vase is invisible; but I know that it is of bronze, and that its glimpsing handles are bodies of dragons. Only the lotos is fully illuminated: three pure white flowers, and five great leaves of gold and green,--gold above...
A Passional Karma : A PASSIONAL KARMA ONE of the never-failing attractions of the Tky stage is the performance, by the famous Kikugor and his company, of the "Botan-Dr", or "Peony-Lantern." This weird play, of which the scenes are laid in the middle of the last century, is the dramatization of a romance by...
Silkworms : SILKWORMS I I WAS puzzled by the phrase, "silkworm-moth eyebrow," in an old Japanese, or rather Chinese proverb:--"The silkworm-moth eyebrow of a woman is the axe that cuts down the wisdom of man." So I went to my friend Niimi, who keeps silkworms, to ask for an explanation. "Is it possible," he...
At Yaidzu : AT YAIDZU I UNDER a bright sun the old fishing-town of Yaidzu has a particular charm of neutral color. Lizard-like it takes the grey tints of the rude grey coast on which it rests,--curving along a little bay. It is sheltered from heavy seas by an extraordinary rampart of boulders. This rampart...