眉隐之灵

“Whatever is justice, whatever is discipline, is all arbitrarily decided by humans... What does it matter if people call me a ghost, a beast, a yaksha, an evil spirit, a or a venomous snake?”

This book is a collection of Izumi Kyoka's lesser-known masterpieces, consisting of 8 stories: "Tenshu Monogatari," "Yasha-ga-ike," "Kecho," "Hina Ningen-dan," "Kinoko Maihime," "Yuki Rei Kiji," "Mayu Kakushi no Rei," and "Ehong no Haru."
Among them, "Tenshu Monogatari" has been adapted into many plays and films and is a well-known classic in Japan; "Yasha-ga-ike" and "Kinoko Maihime" are representative works of Izumi Kyoka's unique supernatural worldview; "Kecho," "Hina Ningen-dan," "Yuki Rei Kiji," "Mayu Kakushi no Rei," and "Ehong no Haru" are lesser-known gems, each with unique characteristics of different eras in Japan. The book concludes with special selections of critical essays by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Yukio Mishima, who highly praised Izumi Kyoka.