Lafcadio Hearn Books

Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan Vol I

  [english | 1871]  

Lafcadio Hearn

Summary: [A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play of which the dialogue is uttered by invisible personages the actors and the scenery being only luminous shadows. Wherefore it is peculiarly well suited to goblinries and weirdnessess of all kinds and plays in which ghosts figure are the favourite subject. -from Of Ghosts and GoblinsIn 1889 Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in ...]
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