Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
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Obon Story Time: "At Yaidzu" by Lafcadio Hearn (Ep. 82)
It's Obon and today I want to read to you an essay by Lafcadio Hearn. He wrote it about the town he would stay at during summers, the town I've lived in for 25 plus years. Here he talks not just about the lantern floating ceremony, but also the ocean and ghost and gods and how we humans fit into it all.
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