Yurei: The Japanese Ghost Check out Yurei: The Japanese Ghost - "I lived in a haunted apartment." Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shifting from anec...

I'll be recording RJL's episode about Lafcadio Hearn and The Peony Lantern tomorrow! In the meantime, I was happy to add ideas from @zackdavisson.com's book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost.

As Davisson observes, “when talking about yurei, all roads eventually lead to Lafcadio Hearn.”

A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae.

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