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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Date of account: Traditional material presented in a work published 1913
Source: Myths & Legends of Japan
Reference: Myths & Legends of Japan · selected passage 186
Rights: public_domain
Language: English retelling of Japanese traditions
Translation: F. Hadland Davis
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A. _A History of Chinese Literature. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio_. Gonse, Louis. _Art Japonais_. Gowland, W. _Dolmens and Burial Mounds in Japan_. Griffis, Rev. W. E. _The Japanese Nation in Evolution. The Mikado's Empire. Japan in History, Folk-lore, and Art. Fairy-Tales of Old Japan_. Gulic, Rev. S. L. _Evolution of the Japanese_. Hearn, Lafcadio. _Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Out of the East. In Ghostly Japan. Shadowings. Gleanings in Buddha-Fields. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. A Japanese Miscellany. Exotics and Retrospectives. Kottō. Kwaidan. The Romance of the Milky Way. Japan: An Interpretation. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn_. By Elizabeth Bisland. _The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn_. Edited by Elizabeth Bisland. Hincks, M. A. _The Japanese Dance_. Huish, M. B. _Japan and its Art_. Inoue, Jukichi. _Sketches of Tōkyō Life_. James, Grace. _Green Willow, and other Japanese Fairy-Tales_. Joly, Henri L. _Legend in Japanese Art_. Kaempfer, E. _History of Japan_. Knapp, A. M. _Feudal and Modern Japan_. Lay, A. H. _Japanese Funeral Rites. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan_, Vol. xix. Leech, J. H. _Butterflies from Japan_. Lloyd, Rev. Arthur. _The Creed of Half Japan_.

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