The Dream of a Summer Day was a play, collaboratively written by Storytellers Theatre Company, that was performed at select locations around Ireland

Ireland

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 in March, April and May of 2005, by

It dealt with the life and some of the writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , known also by the Japanese name , was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things...

, from his father Charles Hearn's arrival in Greece, right up to his death and Buddhist

Buddhism

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 funeral in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. Weaved into it were dramatisations of four of the kwaidan (ghost stories) he either wrote or translated while in Japan.