In the 1927 novella Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, another famous Japanese author, the world of the titular Japanese water imps (tradition/nature) becomes a satirical dystopia where worker kappa are ground-up and consumed by their kin after their society adopted modern ways of life. Gojira tells the story of an ancient beast (world of nature) that becomes destructive due to an encounter with atomic bombs (modernity/technology). More recently, you have Ring, where the ghost child Sadako is often seen dripping wet, making her something akin to a deadly water spirit (corrupted nature) that kills people via VHS tapes, the modern technology of 1991 when the original Ring novel came out. The Grudge franchise is a story about the destruction of a traditional Japanese family unit in modern suburbia, while 2021’s Suicide Forest Village uses the internet as an intermediary between the protagonists and a malicious force of nature. Published in 1908, just a few years before the start of the Taisho Era, Ten Nights of Dreams is the work of Natsume Sōseki, one of the most popular writers in Japanese history. Every school in the country covers at least one work by Sōseki, and while the 1908 anthology rarely makes that list, there isn’t a Japanese adult alive who doesn’t know the name of its author. Whether it’s a deliberate nod to Ten Nights of Dreams or not, it’s definitely an example of Demon Slayer following the well-established patterns found in a lot of modern Japanese fantasy and horror, which itself seems to have taken more than a few cues from Natsume Sōseki. Items for one time wear or indoor use like shoe covers, boots tops, costume shoes, etccan not be returned.