SNOW WOMAN/ YOKAI STORIES FROM JAPAN (TUTTLE) (PB)

This book contains 79 stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu – many in English for the first time. It features traditional tales of yokai, ghosts, mountain witches, demons and apparitions frequently sighted in and around the mountainous Shinshu region in central Japan. These stories have been passed down for generations from grandparents to their grandchildren, sitting around the hearth on cold and snowy winter nights. They are well-known throughout Japan and are believed by the inhabitants of Shinshu to have actually occurred in the distant past.