[DeepL Translation - needs review] Ghosts and Mysteries, Entering the Realm of Super Concepts.
Romance, mystery, and the world of "Kyoka".
At the Hida Amou Mountain Pass, a traveling monk from Koya tries to save a medicine seller who has lost his way. At Hitotsuya, a solitary house on the mountain pass where snakes and mountain leeches dwell, the monk is entertained by a beautiful and bewitching woman, but ...... she is a demon that turns men into animals when they approach her with lecherou...
A collection of 泉鏡花's famous short stories. Some are fantastical, while others mundane, but all are written with a beautiful and unique literary style. I imagine that the more familiar one is with older literature, Kabuki and Noh, the more enjoyable these works become.
To be honest, I was not able to completely understand all of the stories in this book. A lot of the storytelling happens through dialogue, so the already difficult to understand archaic style gets even further changed by dialects