biography
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Hearn, (Patricio) Lafcadio (Tessima Carlos)
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pronunciation:
[hern]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1850–1904)
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| biography:
| Writer and translator, born on the island of Lefkas, Greece. He was raised in Ireland, England, and France, moved to the USA in 1869, settled first in Cincinnati, then in New Orleans as a journalist and French translator. In 1890 Harpers' New Monthly Magazine sent him to Japan to write a series of articles. He stayed there for the rest of his life, becoming a teacher, marrying a Japanese woman, Koizumi Setsuko (1891), and taking citizenship there as Koizumi Yakumo. He published a series of books that offered the West its first sympathetic view of Japanese culture, notably Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation (1904). |
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