Hearn, Lafcadio: Japan

		Hearn, Lafcadio: Japan. An Attempt at Interpretation
		Preis: 3,95 € Gebraucht, Guter Zustand, Paperback, 498 S. Tuttle, 1974 ISBN: 0-8048-0272-6 Lieferbarkeit: vergriffen Land: Japan; Epoche: 68er	Lieferzeit: 3-5 Tage

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Klappentext:
LAFCADIO HEARN was bom in 1850 of Irish-Greek parentage on one of the Ionian Islands and as a youth was educated in France and England. In 1869 he went to the United States, where he meagerly supported himself by journalism and the writing of books, with French, Negro, and Oriental backgrounds. He worked on newspapers in New York, Cincinnati, and New Orleans, traveled to the West Indies for a New Orleans newspaper, where he wrote several books recording his impressions and travels.
The flight from Western materialism which characterized Heam's life led him, in 1890, to Japan, which he found so attractive that he decided to spend the rest of his life there.
Heam taught in the Matsue Middle School in Shimane, where he met his wife, Setsuko Koizumi, the daughter of an Izumo samurai family; in the Kumamoto High School in Kyushu; and as a lecture of English at the Imperial University of Japan, Tokyo, from 1896 to 1903.
He became a Japanese citizen, taking his wife's family name, Koizumi or "small spring," as a surname, and Yagumo or "eight clouds" as a given name.
His last years were filled with the bitterness of disillusionment, for he found his adopted country embracing the very materialism from which he had fled; he died in 1904 and was buried in the Zoshigaya cemetery in Tokyo.

A.d. Inhalt:
Strangeness and charm - The Ancient Cult - The Religion of the Home - The Japanese Family - Developments of Shinto - Worship and Purification - The Rule of the Dead - The Higher Buddhism - The Social Organization - The Rise of Military Power

Zustandsbeschreibung:
OBr., Einband leicht angeschmutzt u. l. berieben, Seiten l. gebräunt, ansonsten gute Erhaltung.

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