Japanese Ghost Stories arrives with Yuko Shimizu’s illustrated supernatural world
The Folio Society has released a new illustrated edition of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese Ghost Stories, dated October 13. The 200-page hardcover collects twenty tales drawn from Japan’s supernatural traditions, including Yuki-Onna, Rokuro-Kubi and stories of the Heiké warriors.
The Folio Society has released a new illustrated edition of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese Ghost Stories, dated October 13. The 200-page hardcover collects twenty tales drawn from Japan’s supernatural traditions, including Yuki-Onna, Rokuro-Kubi and stories of the Heiké warriors. Yuko Shimizu supplies a frontispiece and
five double-page colour illustrations, drawing on woodblock art and Edo-period books. Ai Tatebayashi contributes Japanese calligraphy, while novelist Yoko Ogawa introduces the collection. The £70 UK edition is bound in screen-printed cloth, with four-colour printing, a ribbon marker and a die-cut slipcase covered in
textured paper. Its illustrations and introduction distinguish this edition of the classic stories; the announcement concerns a new physical treatment rather than newly written Hearn fiction. Read the official source. Image: Yuko Shimizu / The Folio Society; official illustrated edition photograph.
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