Do you know Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, who is also known as Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲) after gaining the Japanese citizenship? He was an author at the Meiji (明治) era and he is one of the most famous introducers of Japan.
His books are such as Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894), Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1895), Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896), Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897), Exotics and Retrospectives (1898), Japanese Fairy Tales (1898) and sequels, In Ghostly Japan (1899), Shadowings (1900), A Japanese Lyrics (1900)- on haiku, A Japanese Miscellany (1901), Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902), Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903), Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904), and The Romance of the Milky Way and other studies and stories (1905).
He was born in Greece on June 27, 1850 and passed away on September 26, 1904 at the age of 54 in Tokyo. Therefore today is his death anniversary.
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