Eastern Shadows

by Jack Hunter
Eastern Shadows
  • ISBN-13: 9781840683134
  • Author(s): Jack Hunter
  • Editor(s): Jack Hunter
  • Subject: Illustration
  • Publisher: Black Gas Publishing
  • Imprint: Shinbaku
  • Publication Date: 06-05-2014
  • Format: p/b

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£19.95
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several Western writers who visited the newly-opened Japan assimilated, translated and published a host of weird, scary and stirring stories from the country's ancient folklore. Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki and others between them wrote several such volumes, covering mythic figures such as Raiko the monster-hunter, Kintaro the Golden Boy, and the great warrior-hero Yoshitsune. Eastern Shadows features 20 of these classic tales and legends of old Japan.
About the book

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several Western writers who visited the newly-opened Japan assimilated, translated and published a host of weird, scary and stirring stories from the country's ancient folklore. Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki and others between them wrote several such volumes, covering mythic figures such as Raiko the monster-hunter, Kintaro the Golden Boy, and the great warrior-hero Yoshitsune. Eastern Shadows features 20 of these classic tales and legends of old Japan.

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