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Lafcadio Hearn

Born

in Lefkada, united states of the Ionian islands, Greece

June 27, 1850

Died

September 26, 1904

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Horror

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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 c ...more

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	Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things 3.81 avg rating — 6,446 ratings — published 1904 — 418 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Historias de fantasmas de Japón by Lafcadio Hearn, Benjamin Lacombe (Illustrator), Alejandro Tobar Salazar (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 2,258 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan 3.61 avg rating — 2,146 ratings — published 1899 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn, Paul A. Murray (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 2,026 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiriti e creature del Giappone by Lafcadio Hearn, Benjamin Lacombe (Illustrator), Ottavio Fatica (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 1,552 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn (Contributor), Richard Gordon Smith (Contributor), Yei Theodora Ozaki (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ombre giapponesi by Lafcadio Hearn, Ottavio Fatica (Editor, Translator), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 470 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Ghosts and Goblins 3.76 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1904 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kokoro: Hints & Echos Of Japanese Inner Life 3.74 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 1896 — 263 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales by Lafcadio Hearn, Bob Blaisdell 3.95 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.”
― Lafcadio Hearn, Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

tags: corruption, death, life, new-orleans, nola

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“We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge”
― Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

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“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”
― Lafcadio Hearn

tags: mysticism, philosophy, religion

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