検索キーワード： 著者 "Lafcadio Hearn" すべてのカテゴリー

Una nueva colección de relatos fantasmales donde el terror no está reñido con la profunda enseñanza budista. En esta antología, Lafcadio Hearn vuelve a poner toda la maestría de su pluma al servicio de historias de espectros del Japón tradicional, entre quimonos poseídos, espíritus despechados, amantes que regresan de la tumba y espíritus de la naturaleza que nos advierten de los peligros del camino.

Una colección de cuentos y textos breves donde el terror y el intimismo se mezclan de la mano de uno de los maestros del cuento de terror japonés, Lafcadio Hearn. En ella, el autor presenta una serie de historias escalofriantes repletas de leyendas de amor y espectros, desde el canto de una cigarra hasta un detallado estudio de la yobina; a la vez que clama una vez más su amor por su país de adopción.

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, critic and journalist. His novel, Chita: A Memory of Last Island, is about a young girl, Chita, who survives a devastating tropical storm. Last Island, a holiday resort in the Gulf of Mexico, is destroyed by the hurricane that kills Chita’s mother and leaves her adrift at sea. Chita is saved and adopted by a Spanish fisherman, Feliu, and his wife, Carmen, a religious woman who perceives the baby as a gift from God.

Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn (1850-1904) was the son of a British father and Greek mother. He spent his early life in England, Ireland, France and America before moving in 1890 to Japan, where he married and settled. His most famous works are retellings of Japanese and Chinese folktales, in particular those of a ghostly or macabre nature. 'The Story of Chugoro' is the tale of a young man who is enticed into the clutches of a vampiric frog.

Sixteen classic stories from masters of the genre: "The Judge's House", by Bram Stoker; "A Jug of Sirup", by Ambrose Bierce; "The Reconciliation", by Lafcadio Hearn; "The Woman With a Candle" by W. Bourne Cooke; "The Ebony Frame", by E. Nesbit; "On the Northern Ice", by Elia W. Peattie; "The Haunted Doll's House", by M. R. James; "The Old House in Vauxhall Walk", by Charlotte Riddell; "The Underground Ghost", by John Berwick Harwood; "Haunted", by Anon (from Tinsley's Annual); plus five more....

貉(むじな)とは、主にアナグマのことを指すそうで、日本の民話では、貉はタヌキやキツネと並び、よく人をばかす妖怪として描かれています。さて、小泉八雲が綴った『貉』とはどのような内容だったのでしょうか?のっぺらぼうの犯人は貉だったのでしょうか。記憶に残る結末と情景が目にうかぶ巧みな描写がとても秀逸な、印象深い素敵な怪談作品です。

元モーニング娘。中澤裕子さんが名作文学の朗読に挑戦！NHKラジオ第１「きらり10代！名作を読もう」で放送され、好評を得た作品がオーディオブックに登場！朗読終了後、本人による感想や作品への思いなども聞きどころのひとつです。

「・・このことを だれにも いっては いけないよ・・・・」 少年は、うつくしい女のそのいいつけを、成長し、青年となり、妻を娶り、子をなしてもずっと守りつづけていたのでした。それを、ある日、妻にもらしてしまいます・・・。 オーディオブックヒット作「羅生門」ドラマバージョンを制作したスタッフたちが、再びドラマバージョンにチャレンジしました。余談ながら、この物語のもととなったのは、 現在の東京都青梅市中部多摩川沿いの地方での言い伝えであったようです。現代は、ずいぶんと暖かくなったものです。(C)ことのは出版「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

やさしい英語で書かれた世界の名作小説を、BGMと効果音にのせてラジオドラマ仕立てでお届けします。ラフカディオ・ハーンは、日本名の小泉八雲でもおなじみです。1850年ギリシャ生まれ。両親の離婚で大叔母に引き取られ、イギリスで教育を受けます。1890年に来日し、英語の教師として赴任した島根県でセツと出会い結婚。その後、熊本、神戸、東京などを教師や記者などをしながら転々とし、数々の随筆を残して日本的情緒を世界に紹介しました。この作品はハーンの代表作の「怪談」の中の一編です。ハーンの英文は、明快で平易ながら、さまざまな技巧が凝らされています。

On the Akasaka Road, in Tokyo, there is a slope called Kii-no-kuni-zaka. Before the era of street-lamps and jinrikishas, this neighbourhood was very lonesome after dark; belated pedestrians would go miles out of their way rather than mount the Kii-no-kuni-zaka, alone, after sunset. All because of a Mujina that used to walk there....

One day a hunter came across a pair of mandarin duck, oshidori, swimming together in a river that he was about to cross. To kill oshidori is not good; but Sonjô happened to be very hungry, and he shot at the pair. His arrow pierced the male: the female escaped into the rushes of the farther shore, and disappeared. Sonjô took the dead bird home, and cooked it. That night he dreamed a dreary dream.

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. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we examine one of the great names from the past whose works invite life, rituals and the spirit world together to fashion dramatic and chilling unforeseen happenings.

Together, these three volumes form an essential collection for anyone fascinated by mythology, folklore, and the cultural heritage of Japan. Each story in this anthology is not just a tale. It's a window into the ancient soul of Japan, its people, and its enduring legacy.