Name: Hearn's Japan: Writings from a Mystical Country, Volume 3
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Author: Hearn, Lafcadio ; De Lange, William
ISBN: 9789492722195

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Hearn's Japan: Writings from a Mystical Country, Volume 3

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lafcadio Hearn

Illustrated by

William De Lange

Publisher

Toyo Press

Language

English

Pages

254

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9789492722195

Synopsis "Hearn's Japan: Writings from a Mystical Country, Volume 3"

"Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with notes, glossary, index...and a beautiful layout to boot." Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), the son of an Irish Surgeon-Major and a Greek woman of noble lineage, who settled in Japan after a checkered career in journalism in Cincinnati and New Orleans, is still considered by many the most astute interpreter of the country and its people.In the third part of this series, we join Hearn in Kumamoto after he has taken up at the Daigo Koto Gakko, Kumamoto's senior high school. We are introduced to his new students who reveal their ambiguous attitude to Western ideas about honor, love, and duty. And we join him again on his various excursions around Meiji Japan: to nearby Hakata, where he visits the local temple, with its large Buddha head surrounded by thousands of bronze mirrors; to the National Exhibition at Kyoto to witness the commotion around a painted nude, and to the battle cruiser Matsushima at anchor off Kobe, freshly arrived from her hard-won victory in the Battle of the Yalu River (1894), its deck still stained with the blood of war.Led, introduced, and informed by guides and friends, with each experience, Hearn's love for the Japanese grows, his understanding for their ways deepens. And it is this pairing of love and insight that make his Writings From a Mystical Country so compelling and enchanting--even now, more than a century after his death.

Lafcadio Hearn

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(Greece 1850 - Japan 1904), born in Greece to an Irish father and Greek mother, he was raised between Greece and Ireland. At the age of nineteen, he moved to the United States to start his journalism career and later to Japan in 1890, where he would spend the rest of his life as a teacher and writer. He is noted for his narrative and descriptive talent both in his journalistic and literary work. He was one of the first Europeans to introduce Japanese culture to Western readers. His long stay in Japan, combined with his deep knowledge of Japanese culture and traditions and his poetic imagination and narrative style, have secured him a privileged place in the reading community and an even more privileged place in the hearts of the Japanese.

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