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Lafcadio Hearn
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 4 | 182 Users | 16 Reviews
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| Title | : | Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan |
| Author | : | Lafcadio Hearn |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | December 24th 2007 by Book Jungle (first published 1894) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. Japan. Nonfiction. Travel. History. Classics |
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan.Specify Books In Favor Of Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
| ISBN: | 1604247487 (ISBN13: 9781604247480) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I was curious to read Hearn's perspective on Matsue, even though he lived only briefly in that samurai city. If you visit Matsue today, you would think otherwise, that the man spent his dying years in the Sanin region. He is one of the few Western authors who is regarded as a god by the Japanese people because of his fascination for the country and its peoples. Some of his observations of Japanese people remain relevant even in the 21st century. He describes the Japanese people of the late 19th
I really enjoy reading Hearn, you feel the love, admiration and respect he had for the country and the people. He seemed a man ahead of his time, there's no bigotry or superiority complex in his writings. I loved reading this book, the descriptions of the temples and shrines, nature, even the curiosity of the people on seeing a foreigner. He writes about the everyday man and woman, their kindness to him, the changes the country is going through. His writings on buddhism, shinto, the syncretism
My favorite book on ancient Japan, especially the parts that relate to Izumo (now Shimane prefecture), where I lived for three years on the JET program. Every time I explored an obscure shrine or temple or very remote mountain and seaside village around lake Shinji (between Izumo and Matsue), I tried to imagine how Hearn would have seen them. And it was quite a trip to find out that his grandson Koizumi Bon works at a university in Shimane. I once met the Irish ambassador to Japan on a ferry
Hearn's first and best book on Japan, dating from 1894, with descriptions of his arrival in Yokohama and his stay in Matsue..
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (in Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν, aka Koizumi Yakumo, in Japanese: 小泉八雲) was born in the island of Lefkas (aka Lefkada), Greece. He was a son of an army doctor Charles Hearn from Ireland and a Greek woman Rosa Cassimati (in Greek: Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη). After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a
Not what I expected from this book. A lot of emphasis on the role of religion and visiting different temples. Would have liked to know what everyday life was like instead.
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