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Manga Yokai Stories: Ghostly Tales from Japan
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Lafcadio Hearn / Sean Michael Wilson / Inko Ai Takita illustrator
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This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories!

These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demons Sermon on the Martial Arts.

Manga Yokai Stories includes:

Nuke-kubi : A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins

The Screen Maiden : A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him

Corpse Rider : A womans unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her

A Dead Secret : A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind

Wilsons skillful adaptation of Hearns ghostly tales--along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita--make these fascinating stories come to life.

This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.

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MANGA

YOKAI STORIES

GHOSTLY TALES FROM JAPAN

LAFCADIO HEARN

retold by SEAN MICHAEL WILSON illustrations by INKO AI TAKITA

Contents

The Ghostly Tales of Lafcadio Hearn

The stories adapted into illustrated form for this collection are a small fraction of the stories put together by Lafcadio Hearn, an Irish-Greek writer who lived in Ireland, the UK and the USA before moving to Japan in 1890 and living there until his death in 1904. With the help of his Japanese wife, Setsu, he collected old Japanese tales, some from Japanese texts, like the thirteenth century Tale of the Heike, others told to him and Setsu personally by farmers and merchants. On quiet lamplit evenings, Setsu told him tales she remembered from childhood, with Hearn presumably scribbling down notes.

Hearn was a key figure in the late-nineteenth-century opening up of Japan to the West, alongside British diplomat Ernest Satow, and Thomas Glover, a Scotsman who helped found the companies that later became Kirin and Mitsubishi. My own son, Tomisaburo, is named after the son of Glover, born in 1870, presumably the first ever Japanese-Scottish child. Hearn was, therefore, not unique and not the first Westerner to arrive in Japan. However, he wrote more books than his contemporaries and has certainly had the bigger influence in the world of literature. The stories in this book are from the 1900 collection Shadowings (Reconcilation, Corpse Rider and Screen Maiden), from the 1904 collection Kwaidan (Nuke-kubi, Riki-Baka, and A Dead Secret) and the 1901 collection A Japanese Miscellany (Before the Supreme Court).

In these manga I have tried to keep as close to the original wording as possible while appealing to modern readers. There is also the need to adjust the pacing and rhythm to fit the visual format of a graphic novel while respecting the original. The Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita has done an excellent job of making these stories come alive on what is our first full-length book together. A note of caution, though, for those expecting blood and guts or chilling horror. These stories are not all horror in that sense; some are subtle and more mysterious. And they often tell us about Japanese culture into the bargain.

I myself have several small connections with Lafcadio Hearn. Like him, I am a half-Irish writer living in Kumamoto, the same Japanese town where Hearn lived. My grandparents family name is Mulhern, an Anglicized version of the Irish name Maoilchiarin , roughly meaning descendant of the followers of Hern. So, I am, in name and in literature, a follower of Hearn. I also teach English classes within sight of where Hearn himself taught English, at the university here. On his lunch break, Hearn would walk up the hill, right past where I live and where I have adapted his storiesover a hundred years later!

Sean Michael Wilson

IN 1904, WHILE JAPAN PREPARED FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA,
THE GREEK-IRISH WRITER LAFCADIO HERAN
LIVED IN SEMI-RETIREMENT, DUE TO HIS ILLNESS, IN TOKYO,
HAVING PPEVIOUSLY LIVED IN MATSUE AND KUMAMOTO.

HERE HE PUT TOGETHER ONE OF HIS LAST BOOKS:
A FAMOUS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE TALES CALLED KWAIDAN.

THESE WERE NOT STORIES HEARN WROTE
HIMSELF BUT ONES THAT HE COLLECTED
WHILE HE LIVED IN JAPAN. SOME WERE
FROM OLD BOOKS, SOME WERE TOLD TO
HIM BY JAPANESE STORYTELLERS.

THE KWAIDAN BOOK PRESENTED MANY TALES
THAT DRAW ON THE JAPANESE FASCINATION
WITH GHOSTS AND MYSTERY, SUBJECTS THAT
HEARN ALSO FOUND DEEPLY INTERESTING.

ONE OF THE SHORT TALES IN KWAIDAN
IS CALLED A DEAD SECRET.
THIS IS THE STORY.

A LONG TIME AGO,
IN THE PROVINCE OF TAMBA,
THERE WAS A RICH MERCHANT
CALLED INAMURAYA GENSUKE

HE HAD A VERY PRETTY DAUGHTER
CALLED O-GONO
AND SHE WAS CLEVER TOO.

HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A PITY
TO LET HER GROW UP WITH
ONLY THE LIMITED EDUCATION
THAT THE TEACHERS OF THAT
RURAL AREA COULD GIVE.

SO, HE SENT HER TO KYOTO,
TO BE TRAINED IN MANNERS
AND CULTURE LIKE
THE LADIES OF THE CAPITAL.

AFTER HER EDUCATION,
SHE GOT MARRIED TO
A FRIEND OF HER FATHERS FAMILY,
A MERCHANT NAMED NAGARAYA.
THEY SOON HAD ONE CHILD, A BOY.

BUT, TRAGICALLY,
O-S0NO FELL ILL AND DIED,
IN ONLY THE FOURTH YEAR
OF HER MARRIAGE.

ON THE NIGHT AFTER THE FUNERAL
HER LITTLE SON RAN DOWN
STAIRS LOOKING SCARED.

MAMA IS
UPSTAIRS.

WHAT?

MAMA
IS UPSTAIRS.
SHE SMILED AT ME
BUT SHE DIDNT SAY
ANYTHING.

THE POOR BOY IS
IMAGINING THINGS.

DONT WORRY,
WELL ALL GO IN AND
YOULL SEE THAT MAMA IS
NOT THERE.

SHE APPEARED TO BE STANDING
IN FRONT OF A TANSU CHEST OF DRAWERS
THAT STILL CONTAINED HER ORNAMENTS
AND HER CLOTHES.

MAMA!

WHY
WONT MAMA
TALK TO ME?

A WOMAN IS FOND OF
HER LITTLE THINGS.
PERHAPS SHE HAS COME BACK
TO LOOK AT THEM.

SOMETIMES
DEAD PEOPLE DO THAT
UNLESS THE THINGS ARE
GIVEN TO THE LOCAL TEMPLE.
IF WE GIVE O-SONOS BELONGINGS
TO THE TEMPLE, HER SPIRIT MIGHT
FIND PEACE.

IT WAS AGREED THAT
THIS SHOULD BE DONE
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO, THE FOLLOWING MORNING
THE DRAWERS WERE EMPTIED.

AND ALL OF O-SONOS ORNAMENTS AND
DRESSES WERE TAKEN TO THE TEMPLE.

BUT SHE CAME BACK THAT NIGHT,
STILL LOOKING MOURNFULLY AT THE TANSU.
AND SHE CAME BACK THE NIGHT AFTER THAT,
AND EVERY NIGHT
AND THE HOUSE BECAME A HOUSE OF FEAR.

THE MOTHER OF O-SONOS HUSBAND
WENT BACK TO THE TEMPLE.
SHE TOLD THE CHIEF PRIEST
EVERYTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED,
AND ASKED FOR HIS ADVICE.

THE HEAD PRIEST WAS AN OLD MAN
CALLED DAIGEN OSHO, WHO WAS
LEARNED IN THE WAYS OF ZEN.

BUT WE EMPTIED
ALL THE DRAWERS,
THERE IS NOTHING
IN THERE.

HMM,
THATS ODD

WELL,
TONIGHT I WILL GO
TO KEEP WATCH
IN THE ROOM, AND
SEE WHAT CAN BE
DONE.

SHE MUST BE ANXIOUS
ABOUT SOMETHING IN
OR NEAR THAT TANSU.

AFTER SUNDOWN,
DAIGEN OSHO
WENT TO THE HOUSE.

HE REMAINED THERE ALONE,
READING THE SUTRAS.
BY THE HOUR OF THE RAT,
AROUND ONE IN THE MORNING,
NOTHING HAD APPEARED.

NO ONE ELSE
SHOULD ENTER THE ROOM
WHILE I AM WATCHING
UNLESS I CALL

THEN THE FIGURE OF O-SONO
SUDDENLY BEGAN TO TAKE SHAPE
IN FRONT OF THE TANSU.

THE PRIEST UTTERED THE HOLY FORMULA
PRESCRIBED IN SUCH CASES,
AND THEN SPOKE TO THE GHOST.

I HAVE
COME HERE
TO HELP YOU.

AS THE GHOST APPEARED
TO GIVE HER CONSENT
THE PRIEST OPENED THE TOP
DRAWER. IT WAS EMPTY

PERHAPS
IN THE TANSU
THERE IS STILL SOMETHING
YOU FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT.
SHALL I TRY TO FIND IT
FOR YOU?

SO HE CHECKED THE OTHER DRAWERS
BUT FOUND NOTHING IN ANY OF THEM.

BUT THE GHOSTLY FIGURE REMAINED
GAZING AS WISTFULLY AS BEFORE.

HE REMOVED THE LINING
OF THE FIRST DRAWER
BUT, NOTHING.
AND THERE WAS NOTHING
IN THE SECOND AND
THIRD DRAWERS EITHER.

SUDDENLY IT OCCURED TO HIM
THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING
HIDDEN UNDER THE PAPER LINING.

BUT UNDER THE LINING OF
THE LOWERMOST DRAWER HE FOUND

A LETTER.

IS THIS
THE THING WHICH
HAS BEEN TROUBLING
YOu?

SHALL I
BURN IT?

I WILL BURN IT
IN THE TEMPLE
THIS VERY
MORNING

AND
NO ONE WILL
READ IT EXCEPT
MYSELF.

DAWN WAS BREAKING
AS THE PRIEST CAME DOWNSTAIRS
TO THE FAMILY WAITING ANXIOUSLY.

YOU CAN RELAX
SHE WONT APPEAR

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