LAFCADIO See also:

• LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904)

HEARN (1850-1904)  , author of books about See also:

• JAPAN

Japan, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 27th of See also:

• JUNE

June 185o in Leucadia (pronounced Lefcadia, whence his name, which was one adopted by himself), one of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Ionian Islands . He was the son of Surgeon-See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• HEARN, LAFCADIO (1850-1904)

Hearn, of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

County, See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, who, during the See also:

• ENGLISH

English occupation of the Ionian Islands, was stationed there, and who married a Greek wife . See also:

• ARTISTIC

Artistic and rather bohemian tastes were in Lafcadio Hearn's See also:

• BLOOD

blood . His See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• BROTHER

brother See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard was at one See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time a well-known member of the See also:

• BARBIZON

Barbizon set of artists, though he made no See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark as a painter through his lack of See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy . See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young Hearn had rather a casual See also:

• EDUCATION

education, but was for a time (1865) at Ushaw See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• DURHAM
• DURHAM, JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1ST EARL OF (1792–1840)

Durham . The religious faith in which he was brought up was, however, soon lost; and at nineteen, being thrown on his own resources, he went to See also:

• AMERICA

America and at first picked up a living in the See also:

• LOWER

lower grades of newspaper See also:

• WORK

work . The details are obscure, but he continued to occupy himself with journalism and with out-of-the-way observation and See also:

• READING

reading, and meanwhile his erratic, romantic and rather morbid idiosyncrasies See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed . He was for some time in New See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans, See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing for the Times Democrat, and was sent by that See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper for two years as correspondent to the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Indies, where he gathered material for his Two Years in the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French West Indies (189o) . At last, in 1891, he went to Japan with a See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission as a See also:

• NEWS

news-paper correspondent, which was quickly broken off . But here he found his true See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere . The See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his books on See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese subjects tells its own See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894); Out of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East (1895); Kokoro (1896); Gleanings in See also:

• BUDDHA

Buddha See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

Fields (1897); Exotics and Retrospections (1898); In Ghostly Japan (1899) ; Shadowings (1900) ; A Japanese See also:

• MISCELLANY

Miscellany (1901); Kotto (1902); Japanese See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

Fairy Tales and Kwaidan (1903), and (published just after his See also:

• DEATH

death) Japan, an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

Attempt at See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

Interpretation (1904), a study full of knowledge and insight . He became a teacher of English at the University of See also:

• TOKYO (or TOKIO, formerly called Yedo)

Tokyo, and soon See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell completely under the spell of Japanese ideas .

He married a Japanese wife, became a naturalized Japanese under the name of Yakumo Koizumi, and adopted the Buddhist See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion . For the last two years of his See also:

• LIFE

life (he died on the 26th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1904) his See also:

• HEALTH

health was failing, and he was deprived of his lecturership at the University . But he had gradually become known to the See also:

• WORLD

world at large by the originality, See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of his writings . This wayward bohemian See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, who had seen life in so many climes, and turned from Roman Catholic to atheist and then to Buddhist, was curiously qualified, among all those who were " interpreting" the new and the old Japan to the Western world, to see it with unfettered understanding, and to See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express its life and thought with most intimate and most artistic sincerity . Lafcadio Hearn's hooks were indeed unique for their See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day in the literature about Japan, in their See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of real knowledge with a literary See also:

• ART

art which is often exquisite . See See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth Bisland, The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (2 vols., 1906) ; G . M . See also:

• GOULD, AUGUSTUS ADDISON (,8o5-1866)
• GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP (1824-1896)
• GOULD, JAY (1836-1892)
• GOULD, SIR FRANCIS CARRUTHERS (1844- )

Gould, Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908) .