Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
“The first charm of Japan is intangible and volatile as a perfume.”
Those words were written by Lafcadio Hearn, one of the first westerners to be considered a true Japanophile. Hearn was born in Greece, to an Irish father and a Greek mother, moved to Ireland at the age of two and to the United States at the age of nineteen where he lived in Cinicinati and New Orleans and established himself as a writer. He spent some time in the West Indies before being sent to Japan in 1890 as a newspaper correspondent. He never returned …read more
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