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Updated: May 23, 2025

So through blackness to the Meido the white Shapes flit-the eternal procession of Souls in painted Buddhist dreams of the Underworld. My friend who writes for the San-in Shimbun, which to-morrow will print the whole sad story, tells me that compassionate folk have already decked the new-made graves with flowers and with sprays of shikimi.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series