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KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things 1 KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things By Lafcadio Hearn 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STORY OF MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI OSHIDORI THE STORY OF O-TEI UBAZAKURA DIPLOMACY OF A MIRROR AND A BELL JIKININKI MUJINA ROKURO-KUBI A DEAD SECRET YUKI-ONNA THE STORY OF AOYAGI JIU-ROKU- ZAKURA THE DREAM OF AKINOSUKE RIKI-BAKA HI-MAWARI HORAI INSECT STUDIES BUTTERFLIES MOSQUITOES ANTS 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things 3 INTRODUCTION The publication of a new volume of Lafcadio Hearn's exquisite studies of Japan happens, by a delicate irony, to fall in the very month when the world is waiting with tense expectation for news of the latest exploits of Japanese battleships. Whatever the outcome of the present struggle between Russia and Japan, its significance lies in the fact that a nation of the East, equipped with Western weapons and girding itself with Western energy of will, is deliberately measuring strength against one of the great powers of the Occident. No one is wise enough to fore......