Classic Japanese Short Stories

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help....

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    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-2007
    • Language: English
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    • Kwaidan is a collection of weird, ghostly legends and beliefs of old Japan....

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    • Mimei Ogawa: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales
    • By: Mimei Ogawa
    • Narrated by: Masato Ouchida
    • Series: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen....

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    • Stories and Studies of Strange Things
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Blaise Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies"....

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    • By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    • Narrated by: Russell D Jones
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Originally published in 1922 and translated by Takashi Kojima, this classic short story was the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, about the murder of a samurai....

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    • By: Рюноскэ Акутагава
    • Narrated by: Андрей Курилов
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2024
    • Language: Russian
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    • В этот сборник вошли как принесшие Акутагаве мировую славу и автоматически ассоциирующиеся с его именем исторические рассказы и новеллы...

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