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"Keidan" is based on the most widely circulated folk tales in Japan, and covers extremely rich contents, such as the resentful spirits of the Heike family who were exterminated due to defeat in Japanese history, stories of fox fairies and willow spirits repaying kindness, and the secret story of ghosts redressing their grievances... The entire article is not available. There are gorgeous words, but it is filled with a strong unique flavor of traditional Japanese literature and a strong local flavor of Fuso. It is either humorous, warning, or allegorical. It is colorful and changeable, presenting an aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations. The horror atmosphere and cultural artistic conception constructed in the book "Ghost Story" have profoundly affected Japanese people's understanding of horror aesthetics. It was adapted into a film in 1964, directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

"Keidan·Keitan" contains a total of fifty-five ghost stories, all of which are retellings and rewrites by Koizumi Yakumo based on famous works of Japanese classical literature. They are taken from many ancient Japanese books such as "Wandering Strange Story", "Ghost Story at the Night Window", "Ten Lessons Copy", "The Story of the Past", "Ugetsu Monogatari", "Anthology of Ancient and Modern Writings", "Hyakumonogatari", "Hyakumonogatari" and "New Hyakumonogatari". These stories of loneliness or loneliness in the dark have won the samadhi of Japanese literature. "Strange Tales" is an indirect reflection of Japanese history, and it also carries the cultural beauty shared by the East. The aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations presented in the whole book has extremely high appreciation and recognition value. The book is equipped with many ukiyo-e works by famous Japanese artists, making it a great collection.