@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004601,
 author = {Vassis, Constantinos},
 issue = {50},
 journal = {人文科学研究 : キリスト教と文化},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Lafcadio Hearn was born in 1850, on Lefkas island of Greece, by an Irish
father and a Greek mother. After the couple quickly split, he was raised
by an aunt in Ireland, but later emigrated to the USA, where he started
a writing career. In 1890 he travelled to Japan as a correspondent for an
American magazine. Charmed by the country, he stayed there for fourteen
years until his death, having made a family with a Japanese girl and
adopted a Japanese name (Yakumo Koizumi). At the same time he wrote
twelve books, in which he portrayed in an idealized way various aspects
of Japan, such as folklore, nature, poetry, religion, mores and usages, and
strange stories. The books were intended for the American reader, but they
were soon translated in other languages, making the author world-famous.
Hearn also taught English literature at the Tokyo Imperial University,
his published lectures establishing him as an accomplished scholar and
critic. Of particular interest are the numerous references to Greece found
throughout his writings, which reflect the fondness he felt for his mother
throughout his life. (References to Ireland, on the other hand, are extremely
rare.) All these elements make Hearn an important link between Greece
and Japan.},
 pages = {105--110},
 title = {Lafcadio Hearn: An Important Link between Greece and Japan},
 year = {2018}
}