There are many nuanced ways to describe ghosts in Japanese. The most common words are obake (which means "changed thing"), yūrei ("faint spirit"), and onryō ("grudge spirit"). Tonight's story uses the word bōrei, which appears several times in Shokoku hyakumonogatari. The word literally means "dead spirit," and simply refers to the spirit of a person
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