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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada on 27 June 1850. [2] His mother was a Greek named Rosa Cassimati, a native of the Greek island of Kythira, [3] while his father, Charles Bush Hearn, a British Army medical officer, was of Irish and English descent, [3] [4] who was stationed in Lefkada during the British protectorate of the United States of the Ionian Islands.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan, also Kwaidan (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. [1] It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi. [2]
The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum (小泉八雲記念館, Koizumi Yakumo Kinenkan) is a writer's house museum established in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1933. The original museum was modeled on the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar , and its collection was based on 22 manuscripts donated by the Koizumi family through the efforts of his ...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a book written by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakumo, in 1894. It is a collection of impressionistic travel sketches, reporting on Hearn's first travels in Japan between years 1890 and 1893. [1] It is also the first works on Japanese culture Hearn published.
In November 1891, Lafcadio moved to Kumamoto with Setsuko. [17] Setsuko unsuccessfully studied English to talk to Lafcadio. [18] Setsuko, however, correctly understood Lafcadio's broken Japanese, called "Herun-san Kotoba" (Hearn-speak) in their family, and the couple communicated with each other. [19] In 1893, their first son Kazuo was born. [17]
"The Boy Who Drew Cats" (Japanese: 猫を描いた少年, Hepburn: Neko wo egaita shōnen) is a Japanese fairy tale translated by Lafcadio Hearn, published in 1898, as number 23 of Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. [1] [2] It was later included in Hearn's Japanese Fairy Tales. [3]
Hōichi-dō (Hōichi's shrine) in Akama Shrine. Hoichi the Earless (耳なし芳一, Mimi-nashi Hōichi) is the name of a well-known figure from Japanese folklore. His story is well known in Japan, and the best-known English translation first appeared in the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.
The Fountain of Youth is a Japanese fairy tale collected by Lafcadio Hearn in Japanese Fairy Tales. [1] Synopsis. An old couple lived in the mountains. The man cut ...