Apparitions - Ghosts of Old Edo__Miyukio Miyabe_2000
Author: Miyuki Miyabe | Translator: Daniel Huddleston
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Introduction
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Tatekawa River
III The Futon Storeroom
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penny dreadful
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it was like biting into a piece of ginger; she could still smell the raw, open surface of its exposed sorrow.
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yesterday had been the forty-ninth day. It was often said that the souls of the dead remained in this world until the forty-ninth day after their death and afterward went on to the next world. Because of that, O-Yū had been counting the days until her sister's forty-ninth. She had been terribly worried that once that day passed, her sister's presence might dissipate.
why 49?
V The "Oni" of the Adachi House
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"Only, I was very anxious because I thought the oni might not like my being married to a human man."
The oni, however, said nothing and did nothing. Mother wondered if that was only natural, being as it was not a human being. An intangible feeling that was a little like relief and a little like loneliness persisted for a long while after, as though she had just missed grasping something terribly important.
VI A Woman's Head
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overwork building up in her body like mud at the bottom of stagnant waters
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so he had tried to keep on speaking. Of course he would. But it had been no good. It was like there was something—something lurking still and silent, deep in Tarō's heart—telling him, You mustn't speak … speaking is wicked … speaking is dangerous. He had a faint sense that something terrible would happen if he didn't heed these warnings, and he could feel the hairs on both arms stand on end as it welled up from inside him
VIII Ash Kagura
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and it was the way of the world that even events that didn't fit a narrative happened when they happened.
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kagura
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umibōzu