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It's Obon and today I want to read to you an essay by Lafcadio Hearn. He wrote it about the town he would stay at during summers, the town I've lived in for 25 plus years. Here he talks not just about the lantern floating ceremony, but also the ocean and ghost and gods and how we humans fit into it all.
Visit the Uncanny Japan website to read the show notes and transcript.
Uncanny Japan is author Thersa Matsuura. Her other shows are Uncanny Robot Podcast and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out her books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit Patreon.
Please join our community forum! https://japanforum.uncanny.productions/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura Website: https://www.uncannyjapan.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UncannyJapan Mastodon: https://famichiki.jp/@UncannyJapan Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyJapan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncannyjapan/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyjapan/
Buy Me a Coffee (one-time contribution): https://buymeacoffee.com/uncannyjapan
CreditsIntro and outro music by Julyan Ray Matsuura
Sweet Dreams by Agnese Valmaggia Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8100-sweet-dreams License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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It's Obon and today I want to read to you an essay by Lafcadio Hearn. He wrote it about the town he would stay at during summers, the town I've lived in for 25 plus years. Here he talks not just about the lantern floating ceremony, but also the ocean and ghost and gods and how we humans fit into it all.
Visit the Uncanny Japan website to read the show notes and transcript.
Uncanny Japan is author Thersa Matsuura. Her other shows are Uncanny Robot Podcast and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out her books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit Patreon.
Please join our community forum! https://japanforum.uncanny.productions/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura Website: https://www.uncannyjapan.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UncannyJapan Mastodon: https://famichiki.jp/@UncannyJapan Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyJapan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncannyjapan/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyjapan/
Buy Me a Coffee (one-time contribution): https://buymeacoffee.com/uncannyjapan
CreditsIntro and outro music by Julyan Ray Matsuura
Sweet Dreams by Agnese Valmaggia Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8100-sweet-dreams License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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