Hearn was an Irishman who was born in Greece, grew up in Ireland, and emigrated to the US where he became a writer. In 2016, He received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Backstory: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things is a new edition book of classic short, Japanese, horror stories written by Lafcadio Hearn over a century ago. Paul Getty Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collections of many art museums such as Philadelphia Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, George Eastman House, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, J. Since then, his work has been published and exhibited around the world, and he received numerous awards. This collection of supernatural tales includes a musician called upon to perform for the dead, man-eating goblins, and insects who uncannily mimic human behavior. In 2000 he closed the production company in order to devote himself entirely to the art. Previews available in: English 'Kwaidan' translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting stories. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he has traveled worldwide extensively photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. Kwaidan or kaidan (the word translates into English roughly as ‘strange or mysterious tales’) are Japanese horror stories in a period setting, and which almost always involve ghosts or demonic forces. He received an MBA degree from UCLA Business School in 1993. He later established his own production company and produced numerous commercials.

He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of TV commercials for Japan. He graduated from Department of Photography at Nihon University in 1975. On Japanese Pronunciation Although simplified, the following general rules will help the reader unfamiliar with Japanese to come close enough to Japanese.

Kwaidan stories