ghosts
Ghosts — the dead who appear to the living.
Tono12 tales
- Tale 22The dead grandmother's ghostsOn the night the great-grandmother of the Sasaki family died, the mother and grandmother who were in the room for the wake saw the figure of the dead…
- Tale 23The spirit of an old woman appeared on the eve of the memorialOn the eve of the fourteenth-day memorial, the people who had finished the nembutsu prayers and were about to go home saw an old woman sitting on a…
- Tale 54The house of the dead at the bottom of the poolA servant of a choja, a very rich man, in Kawai village dropped an axe into a pool, and when he went down into the bottom of the water, he found the…
- Tale 77The illusion of a dead man he stepped overOn the night of a funeral, Tajiri Chozaburo was returning home alone, a little behind the others, when he found an unknown man lying on his back…
- Tale 78The man in a snow cloak and a portent of deathChozo, on his way home from a night out, met a man wearing a snow cloak before the gate. When he looked at him with suspicion, the man vanished…
- Tale 81A pale man lies against the cloud wallWhen Maekawa Mankichi was coming home from a night of pleasure, he looked at the cloud wall at the corner of the veranda and saw a pale-faced man…
- Tale 82A shadow-figure standing in the sitting roomWhen Tajiri Marukichi was a boy, he went into the sitting room meaning to go to the privy, and at the boundary with the parlor there stood a human…
- Tale 86The father's spirit that appeared at the hour of deathWhen the father of Masa, a tofu-maker, was gravely ill and near death, he appeared one evening at the site where the ground was being tamped for a…
- Tale 87The master who visited the temple just before deathWhen the master of a wealthy house in Tono was near death from a long illness, he visited the family temple one day and talked with the priest of…
- Tale 88A gravely ill old man visits the templeNear Jokenji Temple, an old man suffering from a grave illness was met, who said that since he had felt well for two or three days, he was going to…
- Tale 97A near-death experience in typhoid feverWhen Kikuchi Matsunojo of Iide fell critically ill with typhoid fever, he flew as if through the air toward his family temple, and within its gate…
- Tale 99The spirit of the wife lost in the tsunamiFukuji of Tsuchibuchi village lost his wife and children in a great tsunami, and lived in a hut built on the site of his old house. One night in the…