And in fact, Inoue's earliest use of yōkai that I can see refers to a Ouija board. This is the kind of usage that Hearn would have been familiar with, if he had heard the term at all.
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Thank you for this! When I noticed the dude strawmanning me by claiming that Inoue was writing about "yōkai" before Hearn arrived in Japan (ignoring the fact that Hearn wasn't the first European to write about Japanese "goblins"), I scanned Aozora's archive of Inoue's writings, but it's incomplete😅
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