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Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world.
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culture · Writer and translator (1850–1904) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · poet · literary critic · children's writer · collector of fairy tales · journalist · translator · university teacher · also Lafcadio Hearn, Koizumi Yakumo, Yakumo Koizumi, Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, Hearn
Born 27 June 1850 · Died 26 September 1904 · Q313638
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2026· 3 entries
“one of the few depictions we have of black life in a border city during the post-Civil War period.”
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“I was dropped moneyless on the pavement of an American city to begin life.”
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2025· 1 entry
Japan Today: Lafcadio Hearn, ghost stories and romance: Discovering Matsue before NHK’s upcoming ‘Bakebake’ drama
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2024· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Lafcadio Hearn
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2023· 1 entry
The Cincinnati Enquirer: How Lafcadio Hearn, a literary 'icon' in Japan, got his start in Cincinnati
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2022· 2 entries
Japan Today: Lafcadio Hearn becomes Koizumi Yakumo in 1890s Japan
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A conference, Lafcadio Hearn and the Global Imagination at the Fin de Siècle, was held
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2015· 1 entry
The Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens opened in Tramore County Waterford
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2012· 1 entry
Professor Bon Koizumi (Hearn's great-grandson) and his wife Shoko were introduced to Dublin-based Motoko Fujita, a published photographer of The Shadow of James Joyce (Lilliput Press Ltd
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1984· 1 entry
The four-episode Japanese TV series Nihon no omokage (日本の面影; 'Remnants of Japan'), depicting Hearn's departure from the United States and later life in Japan, was broadcast with Greek-American actor George Chakiris as He
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1926· 1 entry
And Tommy McClennan in his version of "Bottle Up and Go" (1939)
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1924· 1 entry
And more recently in Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-09-26.
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1896· 1 entry
With some assistance from Chamberlain, he began teaching English literature at Tokyo Imperial University, a position he held until 1903
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1890· 3 entries
Career landmark: foreign government advisor in Meiji Japan (1890).
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To Japan, where he would remain for the rest of his life, assuming the name Yakumo Koizumi
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Hearn went to Japan with a commission as a newspaper correspondent, which was quickly terminated
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1888· 1 entry
Hearn published in Harper's Weekly the first known written article (1883) about Filipinos in the United States, the Manilamen or Tagalogs, one of whose villages he had visited at Saint Malo, southeast of Lake Borgne in S
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1878· 1 entry
“It’s an indication of how close in time this history is to all of us.”
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1874· 2 entries
Hearn established his reputation as Cincinnati's most audacious journalist, and the Enquirer raised his salary from $10 to $25 per week
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Hearn and the young Henry Farny, later a renowned painter of the American West, wrote, illustrated, and published an 8-page weekly journal of art, literature and satire entitled Ye Giglampz
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1867· 2 entries
Studied at Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens (1863–1867).
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Henry Molyneux, who had become Sarah Brenane's financial manager, went bankrupt, along with Brenane
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1863· 1 entry
Again at the suggestion of Molyneux, Hearn was enrolled at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, a Catholic seminary in County Durham, England
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1861· 1 entry
His great-aunt was aware that Hearn was turning away from Catholicism, and at the urging of Henry Hearn Molyneux, a relative of her late husband, sent him to a Catholic college in France
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1857· 1 entry
At age seven and despite the fact that both his parents were still alive, Hearn became the permanent ward of Sarah Brenane
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1856· 1 entry
Severely wounded and traumatized, Rosa had returned to her home island of Cerigo (Kythera), where she gave birth to their third son, Daniel James Hearn
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1853· 1 entry
It became clear that the couple had become estranged
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1852· 1 entry
Arranged to send his son and wife to live with his family in Dublin, where they met with a cool reception
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1850· 2 entries
Born 1850-06-27.
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Hearn's father was reassigned from Lefkada to the British West Indies
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