Kaidan
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- "Kwaidan" redirects here. For the book by Lafcadio Hearn, see Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. For Masaki Kobayashi's film of the same name, see Kwaidan (film).
Kaidan (怪談) (sometimes transliterated kwaidan) is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (kai) meaning “strange, mysterious, rare or bewitching apparition" and 談 (dan) meaning “talk” or “recited narrative.” In its broadest sense, kaidan refers to any ghost or horror story, but it has an old-fashioned ring to it that carries the connotation of Edo period Japanese folktales.
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