
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
2023

Of Ghosts and Goblins
2022

The Story of Mimi Nashi Hoishi
2012

Two Years in the French
1729

Kokoro
Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
1896

Intohimon karma
2003

Spiriti e creature del Giappone
2020

Japanese Ghost Stories
2019

Japan
An Attempt at Interpretation
1904

Oriental Ghost Stories
2007

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East
1897

Lafcadio Hearne Short Stories
2018

Lafcadio Hearn's Creole Cookbook
1885

Kısa Öykünün Büyük Ustaları
2016

Chita
A Memory of Last Island
1886

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
1894

The Voice of the Great Bell
1989

In Ghostly Japan
1899

Kwaidan
Stories and Studies of Strange Things
1904

Insect Literature
1921

Ombre giapponesi
1992

Exotics and Retrospectives
1904

Kotto
Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
1902

Manga Yokai Stories
Ghostly Tales from Japan
2020

Japanese and Chinese Ghost Stories
Five Books by Lafcadio Hearn
2010

The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn
2017

Mujina
2012

Tales of Japan
Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic
2019

Japanese Fairy Tales and Others
1936

Storie di fantasmi del Giappone
2011

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan
1997

Alguien llama a la ventana
Antología del cuento gótico
2016

Nightmare-Touch
2010

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018

Il mio primo giorno in Giappone
1894

Yuki-Onna
1904

Shadowings
1900

Out of the East
Reveries and Studies in New Japan
1895

Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki
Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vol. 1
2009

The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories
1905

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
2023

A Japanese Miscellany
1901

The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
1998

Some Chinese Ghosts
1887

Principesse e Mononoke. Storie di fantasmi giapponesi
2014