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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Book One: Traditional Tales
Spirits and Ghosts
Flowers of the Sweet Olive Tree (Tottori Prefecture)
The Talking Futon (Tottori Prefecture)
The Long-necks (Yamanashi Prefecture)
The Ghost Cart (Shiga Prefecture)
Earless Hoichi (Yamaguchi Prefecture)
As Smooth as an Egg (Tokyo)
Demons and Wolves
The Demon of Rashomon (The Jikkinsho, a Kamakura-period collection of tales)
The Old Lady Who Turned into a Demon (Tamba Prefecture)
Adachi Plain (Fukushima Prefecture)
Messengers from Enma, King of Hell (Kagawa Prefecture)
The Old Wolf Lady at Saki no Ura (Kochi Prefecture)
Kappas
The Kappa’s Promissory Note (Shimane Prefecture)
The Kappa’s Ointment (Shizuoka Prefecture)
The Kappa’s Return of a Favor (Gifu Prefecture)
The Ninety-ninth Pass (Oita Prefecture)
The Kappa and the Gourd (Saga Prefecture)
Tanuki and Foxes
The Priest That Was Eaten by a Dog (Tosa Prefecture)
The God Inari and Yasubei (Gumma Prefecture)
The Honored Fox God (Ehime Prefecture)
The Great God Shinpachi (Tokushima Prefecture)
The Fox and the Horse Driver (Shizuoka Prefecture)
Rivers and Lakes
Otowa Pond (Niigata Prefecture)
Lake Otane (Tottori Prefecture)
The Catfish of Uso ga Fuchi (Fukui Prefecture)
Gonzaburo the Flute Player (Yamanashi Prefecture)
Botaro, the Man Who Turned into a Dragon (Niigata Prefecture)
Oko’s Song (Yamanashi Prefecture)
Joren Falls (Shizuoka Prefecture)
Miraculous Strength
The Rich Man of Koyama (Tottori Prefecture)
The Reincarnation of Sakuta (Ehime Prefecture)
The Fire in China (Akita Prefecture)
The Dragon Palace Child (Niigata Prefecture)
Kichiji-hime (Shimane Prefecture)
The Thousand-league Eyes of Oto-hime (Niigata Prefecture)
Pure Hearts
The Heavenly Feathered Robe (Shizuoka Prefecture)
Yoro Falls (Gifu Prefecture)
Ikoma-hime of Saku (Nagano Prefecture)
The Rice-planting Jizo (Gumma Prefecture)
The Kudzu Leaf Fox (Osaka Prefecture)
The Akoya Pine (Yamagata Prefecture)
Strong Samurai
Ushiwakamaru and Benkei (Kyoto)
Defeat of the Ogre at Hime Shrine (Nagano Prefecture)
Yuriwaka, the State Minister (Fukushima Prefecture)
The Chinese Bridge at Seta (Shiga Prefecture)
Unfortunate People
The Mirror of Matsuyama (Niigata Prefecture)
The Motoshichikuroshichi Bird (Fukushima Prefecture)
Anju and Chushiou (Kyoto)
Otome Pass (Kanagawa Prefecture)
Chujo-hime (Various sources)
The Stone That Cried at Night (Shizuoka Prefecture)
Book Two: Strange Tales
Man-eating Demons and Yamanba
The Two Children and the Yamanba (Fukushima Prefecture)
The Woman Who Did Not Eat (Hiroshima Prefecture)
The Woman Who Disappeared behind a Tree (Based on stories from the Konjaku Monogatari and the Nihon Reiiki)
The Azure Hood (Tochigi Prefecture)
The Younger Brother Who Turned into a Demon (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
People Who Were Cursed
The Pale, Thin Soul (Shizuoka Prefecture)
O-iwa’s Curse (Various sources)
Long Black Hair (The Shintatsumin tanshu)
The O-matsu Jizo (Akita Prefecture)
O-kiku’s Curse (Nagano Prefecture)
The Curse of the Giant Eel (Tokyo)
Living Heads and Skeletons
The Headless Ghost (Origin unknown)
Otsuna’s Head (Akita Prefecture)
The Abandoned Wife (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Bleached Skull’s Invitation (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Baby’s Sneeze (Okinawa)
Ghosts’ Requests
The Closed Box (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Young Woman from the Oil Shop (Nagasaki Prefecture)
The Ghost That Requested a Sutra Reading (Toyama Prefecture)
Another Half (Origin unknown)
The Ghost That Nurtured a Child (From the Nihon Reiiki)
People Who Were Spared
The Snow Woman (Tokyo)
The Woman-Oil Press (Okinawa)
The Ghost in the Castle Keep (Hyogo Prefecture)
The Earthen Buddha Kannon (Fukui Prefecture)
The Son Who Came Back (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Ghost’s Bowl (From the Shokoku rinin dan)
Apparitions and Water
The Ghost Ship (Okayama Prefecture)
The Wet Woman and the Bull Demon (Tottori Prefecture)
The Old Man Who Stroked Faces (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Wrath of the Giant Abalone (Chiba Prefecture)
Ghost Falls (Tottori Prefecture)
The Woman Who Vanished into the Water (Tottori Prefecture)
Shape-shifting Cats
The Cat Monster Mansion (Yamaguchi Prefecture)
The Dancing Cat (Iwate Prefecture)
The Cat’s Return of a Favor (Kagoshima Prefecture)
The Cat’s Big Pumpkin (Iwate Prefecture)
Being Deceived by Foxes
The Fox Barber (Tottori Prefecture)
The Old Lady’s House (Aomori Prefecture)
The Fox’s Wedding (Nagano Prefecture)
The Crying Voice of the Ghost (Iwate Prefecture)
Friendly Ghosts
The Land of the One-eyes (Origin unknown)
The Man Who Changed into a Corpse (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Ghost’s Drinking Bout (Origin unknown)
The Clog Ghost (Iwate Prefecture)
The Doll That Chased off the Bandits (Shimane Prefecture)
Snakes, Wild Boars and Crabs
The Younger Sister Who Turned into a Snake (Nagasaki Prefecture)
Kuro-hime and the Nushi of the Lake (Nagano Prefecture)
The Brave Brothers (From the Konjaku Monogatari)
The Crab’s Return of a Favor (From the Nihon Reiiki)
Afterword
Bibliography
Copyright Page
Back Cover
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