Title: Ingwa-banashi

Title: Ingwa-banashi Title Record # 1330461
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Date: 1899-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English

Note: First published in In Ghostly Japan (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1899).

Synopsis: As the head wife of a Japanese feudal lord dies, she expresses her jealousy of his favorite concubine in the form of a terrible supernatural curse.

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Translations

Year	Title
1975	The Hands of the Karma
2006	The Hands of Karma (Ingwa-banashi)

Year	Language	Title
1980^ⓘTranslated by Marc Logé.	French	La morte aux mains vivantes

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
In Ghostly Japan	1899-10-00	Lafcadio Hearn	Little, Brown		$2.00^?$: US dollar	241	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
In Ghostly Japan	1911-00-00	Lafcadio Hearn	Little, Brown			241	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Ghost's Companion	1975-10-00	ed. Peter Haining	Gollancz	0-575-02039-3	£2.80^?£: UK pound	191	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Ghost's Companion	1976-00-00	ed. Peter Haining	Taplinger	0-8008-3228-0	$7.95^?$: US dollar	191	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Rus Anderson
Fantômes du Japon	1980-00-00	Lafcadio Hearn	Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur)	2-264-00305-7		288	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Alain Tercinet
Ghost Stories: And Other Horrid Tales	1997-01-01	Charles W. Stewart	The Folio Society		£24.95^?£: UK pound	xvi+ 319	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
In Ghostly Japan	2004-06-04	Lafcadio Hearn	Capricorn Publishing	0-9753970-2-8	$16.00^?$: US dollar	204	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
In Ghostly Japan	2005-05-00	Lafcadio Hearn	Project Gutenberg	8128			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre	2006-08-01	ed. Stephen Jones	Pegasus Books	978-1-60598-201-4			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Randy Broecker
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre	2007-06-25	ed. Stephen Jones	Fall River Press	978-0-7607-9123-3		xxvi+ 354	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Nightmare-Touch	2010-04-15	Lafcadio Hearn	Tartarus Press	978-1-905784-19-6	£30.00^?£: UK pound	xvi+ 235	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
In Ghostly Japan	2011-06-07	Lafcadio Hearn	Tuttle Publishing	978-1-4629-0048-0	$16.95^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
In Ghostly Japan	2013-04-11	Lafcadio Hearn	CreateSpace	978-1-4840-9385-6	$6.99^?$: US dollar	76	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Short Stories	2019-03-15	Lafcadio Hearn	Sirius / Arcturus Publishing (Arcturus Retro Classics)	978-1-78888-654-3	$14.99^?$: US dollar	383	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Asian Ghost Short Stories	2022-02-22	ed. uncredited	Flame Tree Press (Gothic Fantasy)	978-1-83964-882-3	£20.00^?£: UK pound	432	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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