In Ghostly Japan

—The Fifth Month of the Eighteenth Year of Meiji, all the priests of this temple made and set up this pedestal-stone, bearing the likeness of the footprints of the Buddha, and p...

The night was clear, with a great moon,—and windless, and very warm. Shinzaburō sought the coolness of his veranda. Clad only in a light summer-robe, he sat there thinking, drea...

The attendants at once attempted to lift the body from Yukiko’s shoulders, and to lay it upon the bed. But—strange to say!—this seemingly easy thing could not be done. The cold...

“One day, in the period of greatest summer heat, he found himself overcome by drowsiness; and he lay down to rest, with his tile under his head. Scarcely had he fallen asleep wh...

[42] That is to say, The love of parents for their child may impede their spiritual progress—not only in this world, but through all their future states of being,—just as a _kub...

Tomozō had promised Yusai never to speak to any other person—not even to O-Miné—of the strange events that were taking place. But Tomozō was not long suffered by the haunters to...

FRAGMENT FURISODÉ INCENSE A STORY OF DIVINATION SILKWORMS A PASSIONAL KARMA FOOTPRINTS OF THE BUDDHA ULULATION BITS OF POETRY JAPANESE BUDDHIST PROVERBS SUGGESTION INGWA-BANASHI...

Translated, this would appear to mean only,—“_Two butterflies!… Last year my dear wife died!_” Unless you happen to know the pretty Japanese symbolism of the butterfly in relati...

[4] Girls are still trained in the art of arranging flowers, and in the etiquette of the dainty, though somewhat tedious, _cha-no-yu_. Buddhist priests have long enjoyed a reput...

But the primitive fancy may be roused even more strongly in darkness than by daylight. How living seem the smoulderings and the flashings of the tide on nights of phosphorescenc...