Lafcadio Hearn

Jikininki by Lafcadio Hearn appears in his collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things published in 1904. In this strange folktale, the Jikininki are corpse eating Japanese ghosts.

Ningyo No Haka by Lafcadio Hearn first appeared in Gleanings in Buddha-Fields, the third book of Hearn’s Japanese period, published in 1897.