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Download MP3 夏の納涼企画として、７月から10月まで毎月最初の週はLafcadio Hearnの"Kwaidan"から、選りすぐりの怖いお話をお届けしています。 ハーンの怪談の中でも有名な「雪女」を、今回と次回の２回に分けてお届けします。ある冬の夕暮れ、ひどい吹雪にあった木こりの巳之吉（みのきち）は、親方の茂作（もさく）とともに小屋で夜を過ごそうとします。真夜中、寒さで目が覚めた巳之吉が見たものは…！ 　 Ghost Stories (3): From "Kwaidan" by Lafcadio Hearn （小泉八雲） YUKI-ONNA (Part 1) In a village of Musashi Province, there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku and Minokichi. At the time of which I am speaking, Mosaku was an old man; and Minokichi, his apprentice, was a lad of eighteen years. Every day they went together to a forest situated about five miles from their village. On the way to that forest there is a wide river to cross; and there is a ferry-boat. Several times a bridge was built where the ferry is; but the bridge was each time carried away by a flood. No common bridge can resist the current there when the river rises. Mosaku and Minokichi were on their way home, one very cold evening, when a great snowstorm overtook them. They reached the ferry; and they found that the boatman had gone awa