Books Written By Hearn On Japanese Subjects
- Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894)
- Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1895)
- Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896)
- Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897)
- The boy who drew cats (1897; Houghton Mifflin, Boston)
- Exotics and Retrospectives (1898)
- Japanese Fairy Tales (1898) and sequels
- In Ghostly Japan (1899)
- Shadowings (1900)
- Japanese Lyrics (1900) - on haiku
- A Japanese Miscellany (1901)
- KottÅ: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902)
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903) (which was later made into the movie Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi)
- Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904; published just after his death)
- The Romance of the Milky Way and other studies and stories (1905; published posthumously)
- Japan's Religions: Shinto and Buddhism (no date)
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