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    Yakumo Koizumi (小泉 八雲, 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn ( Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, romanized: Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn)...
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    The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum (小泉八雲記念館, Koizumi Yakumo Kinenkan) is a writer's house museum established in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1933...
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    January 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine "Yuki-Onna", Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn, Princeton University Press, pp. 166–170, 2019-07-02, doi:10.2307/j...
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    (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction...
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  • horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies...
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    Europe for Lafcadio Hearn, who was born on the island and is named after it, was inaugurated in Lefkada on July 4, 2014, as Lafcadio Hearn Historical...
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    the friend and fatherly mentor of the 19th century Japanophile writer Lafcadio Hearn. Henry Watkin was born in Pitsford, Northamptonshire, a village near...
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  • "The Dream of a Summer Day" is an essay by Lafcadio Hearn that reminisced on his childhood, and which also incorporated a retelling of the Japanese folktale...
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    by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakomo, in 1894. It is a collection of impressionistic travel sketches, reporting on Hearn's first travels...
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    kappa has been known as kawako in Izumo (Shimane Prefecture) where Lafcadio Hearn was based, and gatarō was the familiar name of it to folklorist Kunio...
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