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Kwairyo and the Headless Yokai
People are really losing their heads in this tale from old-timey Japan.
James dips into the work of Lafcadio Hearn and recounts the legend of the rokurokubi. You want a warrior monk? We got one. Seeking a sinister woodcutter? You better believe that’s here. In the market for a system of bamboo water pipes? All present and correct!
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Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft.
Edited by Laurence Hisee.
Featured image from A man with three eyes… Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.