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“Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series" is an ancient Travelogue, Nonfiction story book written by Lafcadio Hearn. Offers a first rate useful resource for studying Japan's cultural historical past and historic context. Lafcadio Hearn's private reminiscences of Japan in the past due 1800s. Offers expertise about Japanese subculture, customs, and traditions. Investigates lesser-known aspects of Japanese culture and daily lifestyles. Includes observations approximately architecture, religion, and people beliefs. Includes symbolic descriptions of landscapes, cities, and rural places. Offers a unique attitude on Japan as visible via the eyes of a Western foreigner. Reflects Hearn's profound interest in and appreciation for Japanese culture. Includes anecdotes and reports with locals that lend depth to the story. Offers an awesome resource for studying Japan's cultural background and historic context.
This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern Japan Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. Almost more Japanese than the Japanese--"to think with their thoughts" was his aim--his prolific writings on things Japanese were instrumental in introducing Japanese culture to the West. In this masterful anthology, Donald Richie shows that Hearn was first and foremost a reliable and enthusiastic observer, who faithfully recorded a detailed account of the people, customs, and culture of late nineteen-century Japan. Opening and closing with excerpts from Hearn's final books, Richie's astute selection from among "over 4,000 printed pages" not including correspondence and other writing, also reveals Hearn's later, more sober and reflective attitudes to the things that he observed and wrote about. Part One, "The Land," chronicles Hearn's early years when he wrote primarily about the appearance of his adopted home. Part Two, "The People," records the author's later years when he came to terms with the Japanese themselves. In this anthology, Richie, more gifted in capturing the essence of a person on the page than any other foreign writer living in Japan, has picked out the best of Hearn's evocations. Select writings include: The Chief City of the Province of the Gods Three Popular Ballads In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts Bits of Life and Death A Street Singer Kimiko On A Bridge
