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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。 今回のお話は「狢（むじな）」。この動物、タヌキと同じ穴で生活する習性をもつことから「同じ穴の狢」ということわざでおなじみですね。そして、まさにタヌキと同じく、狢も人をよく化かすようです。さて、今夜は誰を化かしましょうか…。 　 Ghost Stories (2): From "Kwaidan" by Lafcadio Hearn （小泉八雲） MUJINA On the Akasaka Road, in Tokyo, there is a slope called Kii-no-kuni-zaka -- which means "The Slope of the Province of Kii". I do not know why it is called "The Slope of the Province of Kii". On one side of this slope, you see an ancient moat, deep and very wide, with high green banks rising up to some place of gardens; -- and on the other side of the road extend the long and lofty walls of an imperial palace. Before the era of street-lamps and jinrikishas, this neighborhood was very lonesome after dark; and belated pedestrians would go miles out of their way rather than mount the Kii-no-kuni-zaka, alone, after sunset. -- All because of a Mujina that used to walk there. The last man who saw the Mujina was an old merchant of the Kyobashi q