Kotto ... Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs

Kotto ... Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs

DS809.H4441903

1903

Hearn was born in Greece and raised in Ireland. He traveled to Ohio when he was 19 years old and became a successful journalist/editor. In 1890, Hearn arrived in Japan as a newspaper correspondent but promptly quit his job. Japan became his adopted country and he married a Japanese woman, became a Japanese citizen and assumed the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲). Through his books, he interpreted Japanese things to the western world, and his writings still attract westerners and Japanese readers alike. The book Kottō, (a Japanese word for antiques) is a compilation of short stories adapted from several old Japanese books "to illustrate some strange beliefs."

251 pages

Asia - Japan Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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