Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
by Lafcadio Hearn
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As a lifelong scholar and observer of Japanese culture, Lafcadio Hearn was deeply familiar with the beliefs, attitudes, worldviews, and habits of the country's populace. In this inspiring book, he distills a lifetime worth of knowledge into a series of tips and suggestions that readers can use to cultivate the tranquility and balance that so many Japanese men and women seem to radiate..
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Una serie di saggi brevi dai tratti narrativi, attraverso i quali Lafcadio Hearn tratteggia delicatamente alcune sfaccettature dell’animo nipponico.
Alcuni sono davvero delle piccole perle, come ad esempio “Da un diario di viaggio”, “La monaca del tempio di Amida”, “Un conservatore”, e “Riflessioni sul culto degli antenati”.
Alcuni sono davvero delle piccole perle, come ad esempio “Da un diario di viaggio”, “La monaca del tempio di Amida”, “Un conservatore”, e “Riflessioni sul culto degli antenati”.
A variety of anecdotes and journal entries printed in 1896 during the Meiji era (1868-1912) connotes Hearn’s strong conviction in spirituality, ethnicity, fine arts and nationality of Japan, a mysterious and exotic land to the Westerners waiting to be explored.
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a fiction writer, critic, amateur engraver, and journalist. He wrote extensively about the cultures of Louisiana and is considered the first major Western chronicler of Japanese culture Delia Labarre is an independent scholar of Lafcadio Hearn and Louisiana culture. She lives in Baton Rouge Jefferson Humphries is show more chair of French studies at Louisiana State University show less
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- Japan
- Dedication
- TO MY FRIEND
AMÉNOMORI NOBUSHIZÉ
POET, SCHOLAR, AND PATRIOT - First words
- Yesterday a telegram from Fukuoka announced that a desperate criminal captured there would be brought for trial to Kumamoto to-day, on the train due at noon.
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