It's Obon and today I want to read to you an essay by Lafcadio Hearn. He wrote it about the town he would stay at during summers, the town I've lived in for 25 plus years. Here he talks not just about the lantern floating ceremony, but also the ocean and ghost and gods and how we humans fit into it all.

Uncanny Japan - Japanese Myths, Folktales, Superstitions, History and Language

Obon Story Time: "At Yaidzu" by Lafcadio Hearn (Ep. 82)

Speculative fiction writer, long-term resident of Japan and Bram Stoker Award finalist Thersa Matsuura explores all that is weird from old Japan—strange superstitions, folktales, cultural oddities, and interesting language quirks. These are little treasures she digs up while doing research for her writing.

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Uncanny Japan - Japanese Myths, Folktales, Superstitions, History and Language