Episode Details

A betrothal kept beyond death, a cherry tree that blooms each year on the anniversary of a nurse's sacrifice, a mirror that would not melt for the temple bell, and a faceless thing on a dark road above the moat. Four tales from Kwaidan open the shelf: The Story of O-Tei, who returns seventeen years after her death to keep a childhood promise; Ubazakura, the cherry tree of the milk-nurse; Of a Mirror and a Bell, the legend of the Mugen bell; and Mujina, the brief, perfect fright of the Kii-no-kuni slope.

Chapters:

0:05 The Story of O-Tei

7:01 Ubazakura

10:26 Of a Mirror and a Bell

20:24 Mujina

From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn (1904), public domain — the ghost tales of Hearn's Japanese collections, told in his own order within each book, in Hearn's own prose, lightly modernized.

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