Avatar Posted by DBR 61 days ago (http://www.thetokyotraveler.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: lafcadio hearn koizumi yakumo
Thank you Shane for a quick bio of one of my favourite "Japanese Westerners". As Shane notes, his observations of Japan are insightful and touching but he not only wrote his own observations of Japan but also carefully collected Japanese folk and fairy/ghost tales writing them as closely as could to as he was told them and providing cultural footnotes. Many of his books are out of print but you can find several collections on Amazon and the library of congress has made those out of print available as downloadable e-books - well worth a read.
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