BIOGRAFÍA DE: YAKUMO KOIZUMI / Lafcadio Hearn

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ESTA ENTRADA LA HAGO DEDICADA A UN USUARIO – désde el google de méxico – QUE DESESPERADAMENTE BUSCA Y YA VEO QUE INFRUCTUOSAMENTE –  YA QUE HA VENIDO A MI ESPACIO EN REPETIDAS OPRTUNIDADES – LA BIOGRAFÍA DE YAKUMO KOISUMI, COSA UN POCO DIFÍCIL DE ENCONTRAR, YA QUE SU NOMBRE DE NACIMIENTO ES ESTE LAFCADIO HEARN – ya ves que de japonés … nada , solo su amor por una mujer con la que se casó y el haber admirado y vivido  en ese país sus últimos 14 años  Su padre era irlandés y su madre griega ;AMÉN DE QUE HAY POCO MATERIAL, EL NOMBRE POR EL QUE SE UBICA “ENTRE LOS ERUDITOS” (que yo no soy) ES ÉSTE, ADOPTÓ EL DE YAKUMO  KOISUMI , TOMADO DE LA ANTIGUA MITOLOGÍA  JAPONESA

“Desde muy chico sentí una gran admiración por el Oriente y mi sentimiento
volaba hacia al Japón a través de Lafcadio Hearn”
Jorge L. Borges

PUSE ÉSTA EN INGLÉS PQ ES LA MÁS CORTA – CLARO QUE YO NO TE LA TRADUCIRÉ … PORQUE YA TRABAJÉ PARA TÍ .. : ) , PERO PONGO UN LINK A UNA PÁGINA EN QUE ENCOSTRARÁS EN ESPAÑOL MÁS MATERIAL QUE EL QUE PIENSAS

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A Brief Biography of LAFCADIO HEARN (June 27, 1850 – September 26, 1904)

Was born in Lefkas, Greece. He was a son of an army doctor Charles Hearn from Ireland and a Greek woman Rosa CassimatiAfter making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. But as soon as he arrived in Yokohama, he quit the job because of a dissatisfaction with the contract.

After that, he moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané Prefectural Middle School. In Matsué, he got acquainted with his lifelong friend Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai.

In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and had taught at the Fifth High School for 3 years. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the School of that time, is known as the man who spread judo to the world.

In 1896, when he lived in Kôbé after he worked as a journalist there, he got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. This name was taken from “Kojiki”, a Japanese ancient myth.

On that year, he moved to Tôkyô and began to teach at the Imperial University of Tôkyô. There he got respect of students and many of them made a remarkable literary career.

In addition, he wrote much reports of Japan and published in America. His works was read by so many people as an introduction of Japan.

He quit the Imperial University in 1903 and began to teach at Waseda University on the year next. But after only a half year he died of angina pectoris.

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