Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Peony Lantern
Tsuyu and Yone visit Shinzaburo at night, with Yone carrying a shining peony lantern. The recurring visits appear at first as ordinary meetings. A later discovery identifies the visitors’ dwelling as a grave, changing the meaning of the earlier encounters.
Also known as Tsuyu’s Night Visits
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In the sources
Account in the source
TraditionalTsuyu and Yone visit Shinzaburo at night, with Yone carrying a shining peony lantern. The recurring visits appear at first as ordinary meetings.
Further detail
TraditionalA later discovery identifies the visitors’ dwelling as a grave, changing the meaning of the earlier encounters.
Context & interpretation
The entry follows Davis’s peony-lantern story rather than certifying an apparition. The night visits and grave discovery are traditional narrative events. The lantern is a motif in this episode, kept distinct from Kimi’s hanging-scroll ghost and other accounts of attachment after death.
Original passages
Source 1
Myths and Legends of Japan
always Yone carried the shining peony-lanternOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 252
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0252
- Original scan leaf
- 279
- Recorded leaf number
- 279
- Current Reader position
- 251
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Myths and Legends of Japan
Their house, then, was a graveOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 254
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0254
- Original scan leaf
- 281
- Recorded leaf number
- 281
- Current Reader position
- 253
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed