still in use. In modern Japanese the word is pronounced KAIDAN.


There are many ellipses in the text. Hearn often used them in this book;
they do not represent omissions by the digitizer.


Author's original notes are in brackets, those by the digitizer are in
parentheses. Diacritical marks in the original are absent from this
digitized version.




KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

By Lafcadio Hearn


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