{"product_id":"2940169105100","title":"Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,¿ such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable \"Dream of Akinosuke,\" for example, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the story-teller, in every case, has so recolored and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it¿ One queer tale, \"Yuki-Onna,\" was told me by a farmer of Chofu, Nishitama-gori, in Musashi province, as a legend of his native village. Whether it has ever been written in Japanese I do not know; but the extraordinary belief which it records used certainly to exist in most parts of Japan, and in many curious forms¿ The incident of \"Riki-Baka\" was a personal experience; and I wrote it down almost exactly as it happened, changing only a family-name mentioned by the Japanese narrator. (Summary by L. Hearn, from the Introduction to the book)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099692810480,"sku":"2940169105100","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169105100_p0.jpg?v=1772800484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169105100","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}