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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5418266" data-attributes="member: 50895">Not so much for game play, but the medium that most inspired my current soon-to-be-published <a href="http://ritepublishing.com/kaidan.html" target="_blank">Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story</a> campaign setting for Pathfinder is based on a collection of Japanese ghost stories translated by Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yagumo) published in 1902, called <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210" target="_blank">Kwaidan: stories and studies of strange things</a>.The very first story in that collection is called Mimi Nashi Hoichi (Hoichi the Ear-less) and elements in that story inspired my undead-ghost imperial house, which is very much the core of my setting.Incidentally you'll notice the author is Irish, the Japanese loved his translations and attempt to saving a dying art (scary story-telling) that the Japanese adopted/married him into a Samurai family, so his name became Koizumi Yagumo.Today, Japanese ghost story-telling is intrinsically linked to Lafcadio Hearn, even though he isn't truly Japanese. Every child in Japan learns his stories, like Grimm's Fairy Tales or Mother Goose to children of the west.When I was 15, I went to Japan (to visit family, I'm half-Japanese) and I visited Koizumi Yagumo's house in Osaka, because I was 14 when I read his story collection.I thought that's worth mentioning and 'kind of-sort of' follows your thread...GP</blockquote>