Hearn chose these six legends for their weird beauty: a bell-founder’s daughter who throws herself into molten metal so her father’s bell will ring, a scholar visited by a mysterious lady, the weaving goddess Tchi-Niu, a loyal minister’s return from the grave, the origin of the tea plant and the god of porcelain. Each is told in his richly wrought prose, with notes on the sources.
Hearn’s early book of Chinese legend, written in 1887, years before he settled in Japan. Download the free EPUB.