The 1880 spirit-medium episode at Mount Takao reported by Lafcadio Hearn

Record summary

Lafcadio Hearn’s late nineteenth-century writings on Japanese ghosts, mediums, Buddhist and Shinto practices, and local supernatural traditions provide identifiable literary-ethnographic material for studying how occult themes were represented to English-language readers. Rather than a single verified apparition case, this lead concerns Hearn’s published accounts and the cultural settings he described. It matters for comparing folklore transmission, colonial-era translation, and the transformation of local traditions into global supernatural literature. Individual stories require checking against Japanese sources and Hearn’s editions.