Introduction by Michael Dylan Foster Suggestions for Further Reading Acknowledgments A Note About Japanese Names and Words JAPANESE SUPERNATURAL TALES I. THE AGE OF THE GODS Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) II. COURT AND COUNTRYSIDE The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Tales of Times Now Past Two Tales of Tengu III. EDO PERIOD AND THE KAIDAN BOOM Selections from Hand Puppets (Otogiboko) by Asai Ryoi Selections from One Hundred Tales from the Various Provinces(Shokoku hyaku-monogatari) "A Ghost Asks Jusaku a Favor" from Taihei hyaku-monogatari "The Smallpox Demon" from Nanreishi by Tada Yoshitoshi "Will-o'- the- Wisps" from Isetsu-machimachi by Wada Uko "Death and the Mermaid" from Exemplary Tales of the Way of the Warrior by Ihara Saikaku Two Spider Tales "Shuten Doji" "The House Amid the Thickets" from Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ugetsu monogatari) by Ueda Akinari Selections from Mimi-bukuro by Negishi Yasumori Selections from Toen shosetsu by Kyokutei Bakin IV. THE MEIJI TRANSITION News of the Times Two Tales by Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) "Sea Dæmons" by Izumi Kyoka V. STORIES OF A MODERN NATION A Selection of Legends Two Stories by Okamoto Kido "The Man Traveling with the Brocade Portrait" by Edogawa Ranpo "The Sea Monk" by Tanaka Kotaro "Happiness" by Nakajima Atsushi "The Mermaid and the Samurai" by Dazai Osamu "Love in Two Lives: The Remnant" by Enchi Fumiko "The Woman with the Flying Head" by Kurahashi Yumiko "The Mirror" by Murakami Haruki Notes and Credits.