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Writings from Japan Francis King

Writings from Japan By Francis King

Writings from Japan by Francis King


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Gathers together the finest essays on the customs, lore and scenes of Japanese life from the individually uneven, and now largely neglected, published works of Hearn. In his Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and other books, he recorded the minutiae of life in the ancient Izumo province.

Writings from Japan Summary

Writings from Japan: An Anthology by Francis King

Perhaps no westerner has been held in greater esteem by the Japanese than Lafcadio Hearn who, in 1890, penniless and half-blind came to Matsue, a remote town on the northwest coast of Honshu. There, in the fading twilight of feudal Japan, he was able to interpret for the Western world - from a Japanese point of view and as no one had done before - the forces that had moulded the soul of this unknown people. In his Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and in the dozen or so books that followed, he recorded the minutiae of life in the ancient Izumo province. This selection by Francis King gathers together the finest essays on the customs, lore and scenes of Japanese life from the individually uneven, and now largely neglected, published works of Hearn.

About Francis King

The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian; two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave; and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. He is a much celebrated figure in Japan.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: RECOLLECTIONS: My First Day in the Orient (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan); The Chief City of the Province of the Gods (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan); In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan); At the Market of the Dead (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan); By the Japanese Sea (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan); Beside the Sea (A Japanese Miscellany); Drifting (A Japanese Miscellany); In Yokohama (Out of the East); Bits of Life and Death (Out of the East); At a Railway Station (Kokoro); In Cholera-Time (Kokoro); A Letter from japan (The Romance of the Milky Way); In a Japanese Hospital (A Japanese Miscellany); Fuji-no-Yama (Exotics and Retrospectives). Part TWO: REFLECTIONS: In a Japanese Garden (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan); Survivals (Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation); Insect-Musicians (Exotics and Retrospectives); Kusa-Hibari (Kotto); A Glimpse of Tendencies (Kokoro); The Japanese Family (Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation). PART THREE RELATIONS: A Conservative (Kokoro); Kimiko (Kokoro); The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi (Kwaidan); Ubazakura (Kwaidan); Yuki-Onna (Kwaidan); Jikininki (Kwaidan); Ningya-no-Haka (Gleanings in Buddha-Fields); The Reconciliation (Shadowings); The Case of O-Dai (A Japanese Miscellany); The Story of Kwashin Koji (A Japanese Miscellany); Of a Promise Broken (A Japanese Miscellany).

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GOR003368065
9780140434637
0140434631
Writings from Japan: An Anthology by Francis King
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19940825
368
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