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Lafcadio Hearn
Author · 45 books

Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan; people note his collections of stories and essays, including Kokoro (1896), under pen name Koizumi Yakumo. Rosa Cassimati (Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη in Greek), a Greek woman, bore Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν in Greek or 小泉八雲 in Japanese), a son, to Charles Hearn, an army doctor from Ireland. After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. He arrived in Yokohama, but because of a dissatisfaction with the contract, he quickly quit the job. He afterward moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané prefectural middle school. In Matsué, he got acquainted with Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher and his lifelong friend, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai. In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and taught at the fifth high school for three years. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the school of that time, spread judo to the world. Hearn worked as a journalist in Kôbé and afterward in 1896 got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. He took this name from "Kojiki," a Japanese ancient myth, which roughly translates as "the place where the clouds are born". On that year, he moved to Tôkyô and began to teach at the Imperial University of Tôkyô. He got respect of students, many of whom made a remarkable literary career. In addition, he wrote much reports of Japan and published in America. So many people read his works as an introduction of Japan. He quit the Imperial University in 1903 and began to teach at Waseda University on the year next. Nevertheless, after only a half year, he died of angina pectoris.

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Storie giapponesi di paura. Yokai, yurei, obake e altre creature spaventose book cover

Storie giapponesi di paura. Yokai, yurei, obake e altre creature spaventose

2023

Of Ghosts and Goblins book cover

Of Ghosts and Goblins

2022

The Story of Mimi Nashi Hoishi book cover

The Story of Mimi Nashi Hoishi

2012

Two Years in the French book cover

Two Years in the French

1729

Kokoro book cover

Kokoro

Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

1896

Intohimon karma book cover

Intohimon karma

2003

Spiriti e creature del Giappone book cover

Spiriti e creature del Giappone

2020

Japanese Ghost Stories book cover

Japanese Ghost Stories

2019

Japan book cover

Japan

An Attempt at Interpretation

1904

Oriental Ghost Stories book cover

Oriental Ghost Stories

2007

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields book cover

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields

Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East

1897

Lafcadio Hearne Short Stories book cover

Lafcadio Hearne Short Stories

2018

Lafcadio Hearn's Creole Cookbook book cover

Lafcadio Hearn's Creole Cookbook

1885

Kısa Öykünün Büyük Ustaları book cover

Kısa Öykünün Büyük Ustaları

2016

Chita book cover

Chita

A Memory of Last Island

1886

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan book cover

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

1894

The Voice of the Great Bell book cover

The Voice of the Great Bell

1989

In Ghostly Japan book cover

In Ghostly Japan

1899

Kwaidan book cover

Kwaidan

Stories and Studies of Strange Things

1904

Insect Literature book cover

Insect Literature

1921

Ombre giapponesi book cover

Ombre giapponesi

1992

Exotics and Retrospectives book cover

Exotics and Retrospectives

1904

Kotto book cover

Kotto

Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs

1902

Manga Yokai Stories book cover

Manga Yokai Stories

Ghostly Tales from Japan

2020

Japanese and Chinese Ghost Stories book cover

Japanese and Chinese Ghost Stories

Five Books by Lafcadio Hearn

2010

The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn book cover

The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn

2017

Mujina book cover

Mujina

2012

Tales of Japan book cover

Tales of Japan

Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic

2019

Japanese Fairy Tales and Others book cover

Japanese Fairy Tales and Others

1936

Storie di fantasmi del Giappone book cover

Storie di fantasmi del Giappone

2011

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan book cover

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

1997

Alguien llama a la ventana book cover

Alguien llama a la ventana

Antología del cuento gótico

2016

Nightmare-Touch book cover

Nightmare-Touch

2010

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror book cover

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror

120+ authors and 1000+ stories

2018

Il mio primo giorno in Giappone book cover

Il mio primo giorno in Giappone

1894

Yuki-Onna book cover

Yuki-Onna

1904

Shadowings book cover

Shadowings

1900

Out of the East book cover

Out of the East

Reveries and Studies in New Japan

1895

Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki book cover

Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki

Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vol. 1

2009

The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories book cover

The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories

1905

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales book cover

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales

Classic Japanese Ghost Stories

2023

A Japanese Miscellany book cover

A Japanese Miscellany

1901

The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales book cover

The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales

1998

Some Chinese Ghosts book cover

Some Chinese Ghosts

1887

Principesse e Mononoke. Storie di fantasmi giapponesi book cover

Principesse e Mononoke. Storie di fantasmi giapponesi

2014

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