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Plants -- Folklore -- Japan

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• Plants -- Folklore
• Folklore -- Japan

• The Flowers and Gardens of Japan (London: A. and C. Black, 1908), by Florence Du Cane, illust. by Ella Du Cane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Folk-Lore of Plants, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg text)
• Flowers and Their Associations (London: C. Knight, 1840), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
• The Mistletoe and its Philosophy: Shewing its History, The Origin of its Mystical and Religious Rites; Why This Weird Plant Was Preferably Chosen to Others; Its Legendary Connection with the Great World Reformer, Rama; Along With a Description of Several Rare Plants and Herbs That Possess Mystical Properties (Loudsville, GA: P. Davidson; Glasgow: B. Goodwin, 1898), by P. Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1994), by Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (based on the 1896 edition; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Lafcadio Hearn (PDF at unl.edu)
• Japanese Demon Lore: Oni From Ancient Times to the Present (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010), by Noriko T. Reider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan, by Richard Gordon Smith (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• In Ghostly Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketches (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Shadowings (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Japanese Fairy Tales (unillustrated version), ed. by Yei Theodora Ozaki (Gutenberg text)
• Japanese Fairy Tales, Compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki, Profusely Illustrated by Japanese Artists (New York: A. L. Burt Co., ca. 1905), ed. by Yei Theodora Ozaki (page images at durendal.org)
• Kokoro, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1907), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Dragon in China and Japan, by Marinus Willem de Visser (multiple formats at archive.org)