Name: Shadowings
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Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
ISBN: 9781518793011

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lafcadio Hearn

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

126

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781518793011

Synopsis "Shadowings"

THERE was a young Samurai of Kyoto who had been reduced to poverty by the ruin of his lord, and found himself obliged to leave his home, and to take service with the Governor of a distant province. Before quitting the capital, this Samurai divorced his wife, a good and beautiful woman, under the belief that he could better obtain promotion by another alliance. He then married the daughter of a family of some distinction, and took her with him to the district whither he had been calle

Lafcadio Hearn

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(Greece 1850 - Japan 1904), born in Greece to an Irish father and Greek mother, he was raised between Greece and Ireland. At the age of nineteen, he moved to the United States to start his journalism career and later to Japan in 1890, where he would spend the rest of his life as a teacher and writer. He is noted for his narrative and descriptive talent both in his journalistic and literary work. He was one of the first Europeans to introduce Japanese culture to Western readers. His long stay in Japan, combined with his deep knowledge of Japanese culture and traditions and his poetic imagination and narrative style, have secured him a privileged place in the reading community and an even more privileged place in the hearts of the Japanese.

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