Hiroshima University's English Podcast

Download MP3 すっかり秋めいてきましたが、夏の納涼企画として毎月第１週にお届けしてきました、Lafcadio Hearnの"Kwaidan"シリーズの最終回です。 前回に引き続き、ハーンの怪談の中でも有名な「雪女」の後編をお届けします。あの雪の夜の翌年、巳之吉はお雪という美しい女と出会います。「気があれば目も口ほどにものをいう」のことわざ通り、言葉少なに歩きながら、次第に引かれ合う二人でしたが…。切なくて美しいハーンの物語世界を、最後までお楽しみください。 　 Ghost Stories (4): From "Kwaidan" by Lafcadio Hearn （小泉八雲） YUKI-ONNA (Part 2) One evening, in the winter of the following year, as he was on his way home, he overtook a girl who happened to be traveling by the same road. She was a tall, slim girl, very good-looking; and she answered Minokichi's greeting in a voice as pleasant to the ear as the voice of a song-bird. Then he walked beside her; and they began to talk. The girl said that her name was O-Yuki; that she had lately lost both of her parents; and that she was going to Yedo, where she happened to have some poor relations, who might help her to find a situation as a servant. Minokichi soon felt charmed by this strange girl; and the more that he looked at her, the handsomer she appeared to be. He asked her wheth