KAIDANJapanese Ghost Stories

Episode 1

When the Dead Call His Name, Don't AnswerHoichi the Earless

Kaidan, Tale One. Hoichi, a blind master of the biwa lute, is summoned night after night to perform for "a person of high rank." But the guests who weep at his tale are the dead of a clan that sank beneath the sea. On the night his whole body is covered in sacred writing, he must not answer, no matter who calls his name.