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Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspectives
The East-West controversy over the significance and relevance of Lafcadio Hearn as a writer, thinker and interpreter of Japan continues unabated. Not surprisingly, the centenary of his death in 2004 presented an occasion for renewed debate and discussion by both sides of the divide. This volume, edited by one of Hearn’s leading contemporary apologists, in which he is also a significant contributor, presents twenty-two diverse essays drawn from over seventy papers delivered at conferences held in four cities in Japan in 2004, as well as at other international conferences that took place earlier. The contributors are Joan Blythe, John Clubbe, Susan Fisher, Ted Goosen, George Hughes, Yoko Makino, Peter McIvor, Hitobe Nabae, Cody Poulton and Masaru Toda. Their contributions range from Sukehiro Hirakawa’s ‘ A Reappraisal’ to Joan Blythe’s ‘Enduring Value of Lafcadio Hearn’s Tokyo Lectures’.
Japanese Ghost Stories
The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters
The West's top missile genius was in teeming Bangkok -- with only Colonel Hugh North to keep him out of Commie hands!
Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn
Setsuko Koizumi (1868-1932) was the daughter of a Japanese samurai family in Matsué. In 1891 she married a foreigner - Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) - in a union that lasted 13 years and produced three children. Hearn adopted her family name, becoming Koizumi Yakumo ????,and spent those years in Japan writing and teaching while achieving international recognition and success. Setsuko's Reminiscences tells something of the couple's moves and travels, but focuses mostly on the character, habits, and eccenticities of her husband. The book is a heartfelt intimate portrait of a marriage that brought Lafcadio the home and family he had never before had. This book shares a charming story of domestic happiness, as told by his closest companion, collaborator, and interpreter of life and death in Meiji Japan.
"Out of the East"
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Insect Literature
Insect Literature collects twenty essays and stories written by Hearn, mostly in Japan, a land where insects were as appreciated as in ancient Greece.
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan
This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern Japan Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. Almost more Japanese than the Japanese--"to think with their thoughts" was his aim--his prolific writings on things Japanese were instrumental in introducing Japanese culture to the West. In this masterful anthology, Donald Richie shows that Hearn was first and foremost a reliable and enthusiastic observer, who faithfully recorded a detailed account of the people, customs, and culture of late nineteen-century Japan. Opening and closing with ...
