Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
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page 145 of 150 (96%)
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described. The ro is usually a square shallow cavity, lined with metal and
half-filled with ashes, in which charcoal is lighted. (3) Direct translation of "suzumushi," a kind of cricket with a distinctive chirp like a tiny bell, whence the name. (4) Now a rokuro-kubi is ordinarily conceived as a goblin whose neck stretches out to great lengths, but which nevertheless always remains attached to its body. (5) A Chinese collection of stories on the supernatural. [4] A present made to friends or to the household on returning from a journey is thus called. Ordinarily, of course, the miyage consists of something produced in the locality to which the journey has been made: this is the point of Kwairyo's jest. (6) Present-day Nagano Prefecture. A DEAD SECRET (1) On the present-day map, Tamba corresponds roughly to the central area of Kyoto Prefecture and part of Hyogo Prefecture. [1] The Hour of the Rat (Ne-no-Koku), according to the old Japanese method of reckoning time, was the first hour. It corresponded to the time between our midnight and two o'clock in the morning; for the ancient Japanese hours were each equal to two modern hours. [2] Kaimyo, the posthumous Buddhist name, or religious name, given to the dead. Strictly speaking, the meaning of the work is sila-name. (See my paper entitled, "The Literature of the Dead" in Exotics and Retrospectives.) YUKI-ONNA (1) An ancient province whose boundaries took in most of present-day Tokyo, and parts of Saitama and Kanagawa prefectures. [1] That is to say, with a floor-surface of about six feet square. |
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