Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2020-09-28. Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2019-11-22. Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation is a book by Lafcadio Hearn. It presents a comparative analysis of Japan, its people and traditions, from a scholar who spent decades in the country, demystifying it for western audiences.
Japan: An Attempt At An Interpretation
Japan: An Attempt At An Interpretation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan: An Attempt At An Interpretation write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2015-07-05. Japan: An Attempt At An Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A THOUSAND books have been written about Japan; but among these, - setting aside artistic publications and works of a purely special character, - the really precious volumes will be found to number scarcely a score. This fact is due to the immense difficulty of perceiving and comprehending what underlies the surface of Japanese life. No work fully interpreting that life, - no work picturing Japan within and without, historically and socially, psychologically and ethically, - can be written for at least another fifty years. So vast and intricate the subject that the united labour of a generation of scholars could not exhaust it, and so difficult that the number of scholars willing to devote their time to it must always be small...."
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lafcadio Hearn's Japan write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Lafcadio Hearn's Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Japan
Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 1904. Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The belief that the dead need affection, that to neglect them is a cruelty, that their happiness depends upon duty, is a belief that has almost cast out the primitive fear of their displeasure. They are not thought of as dead; they are believed to remain among those who loved them.... From their shrine they observe and hear what happens in the house; they share the family joys and sorrows; they delight in the voices and the warmth of the life about them. -from "The Religion of the Home" In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. His love letters to his adopted country, including 1894's Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and 1896's Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (both available from Cosimo Classics) helped fire global interest in Japanese culture as it was opening to the West in the 1890s, and in 1904, he published this engaging and highly entertaining series of essays. An early Western attempt to decipher the "outward strangeness" of all things in Japan, and to place the nation and its people in a larger historical context, this is a lyrical work, singing with respect and love. Bohemian and writer PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904) was born in Greece, raised in Ireland, and worked as newspaper reporter in the United States before decamping to Japan. He also wrote In Ghostly Japan (1899).
