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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada on 27 June 1850. [3] His mother was a Greek named Rosa Cassimati, a native of the Greek island of Kythira, [4] while his father, Charles Bush Hearn, a British Army medical officer, was of Irish and English descent, [4] [5] who was stationed in Lefkada during the British protectorate of the United States of the Ionian Islands.
Established in 1933, it is dedicated to the life and work of Lafcadio Hearn. The original museum design was inspired by the Goethe-National museum in Weimar, and its initial collection included 22 manuscripts donated by the Koizumi family through the efforts of Hearn's disciples, Teizaburo Ochiai and Seiichi Kishi. An additional 350 books were ...
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
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.
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]
Psalm 23 is the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The Lord is my shepherd".In Latin, it is known by the incipit, "Dominus regit me ".
King Charles ascended to the throne on September 8, 2023, upon the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth. Robert Hardman's new biography takes us inside the first year of Charles's reign—"from the ...
In his introduction to the collection, translator Lafcadio Hearn wrote that the stories "afford in the original many excellent examples of that peculiar beauty of fancy and power of painting with words which made Gautier the most brilliant literary artist of his time," and asserted, "At least three of the stories we have attempted to translate rank among the most remarkable literary ...