Writers in Kyoto

Tag: Lafcadio Hearn

Hearn on Heian Jingu

  • By WiK
A selection from Dai-Koku-Den

Bin Ueda, Professor and Translator

  • By Yuki Yamauchi
A biographical sketch of one of Lafcadio Hearn's students.

Book Review: Black Dragonfly, by Jean Pasley

  • By Jann Williams
Review of a book inspired by and incorporating the work of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850 – 1904).

Hearn 7: Kimiko

  • By John Dougill
Synopsis and commentary on a story.

Hearn 6: The Reconciliation

  • By John Dougill
Synopsis and commentary on a story.

Hearn 5: Story of a Fly

  • By John Dougill
Synopsis and commentary on a story.

Hearn 4: The Ditty of O-Kichi and Seiza

  • By Lafcadio Hearn
Commentary on a Lafcadio Hearn story.

Pierre Loti on Kioto

  • By John Dougill
An introduction to Loti and his writing.

Lafcadio Hearn’s Kyoto stories

  • By John Dougill
Dougill writes on Hearn and his works.

Book Review: Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Parry

  • By John Dougill
Dougill reviews a book by Richard Parry on the Tohoku tsunami.

Okuni by Lafcadio Hearn

  • By John Dougill
On O-kuni, a miko in the Great Temple of Kizuki.

Hearn’s Kyoto Stories 3: ‘Screen Maiden’

  • By Andrew Sokulski
Commentary on a Lafcadio Hearn story.

Hearn’s Kyoto Stories 2: Sympathy of Benten

  • By Andrew Douglas Sokulski
A review of a Lafcadio Hearn story from his book entitled Shadowings (1900).

Hearn on art and shadows

  • By Lafcadio Hearn
Hearn, in April, writes of looking out his window in Kyoto.

Hearn’s Kyoto Stories 1: ‘Common Sense’

  • By Andrew Sokulski Zozaya
A WIK intern's commentary on one of Lafcadio Hearn's stories.

Hearn on Higashi Honganji

  • By Lafcadio Hearn
Hearn writing from Chapter 6 of Kokoro (1896) on some of Kyoto's sights.

Hearn on silhouettes

  • By Lafcadio Hearn
A journal entry from Lafcadio Hearn.

Hearn on Pontocho

  • By John Dougill
Hearn writing on Pontocho in 1891.

Kyoto tengu

  • By John Dougill
Dougill on Lafcadio Hearn's taste for the macabre.

Hearn in Kyoto

  • By John Dougill
An introduction to Lafcadio Hearn and his relationship with Kyoto.

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