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Kokoro - Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

Kokoro - Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

Hearn, Lafcadio

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesBuddhismJapan

ISBN10: 095672731X
ISBN13: 9780956727312
Publisher: Wabi Sabi Pr
Published: Dec 15 2010
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, is a collection of fifteen essays which capture the innermeaning or spirit of the Japanese.Kokoro opens with At a Railway Station, the story of a criminal captured in Fukuoka andmade to face the wife of his victim, the moving tale of a street singer and the charming portrait of a Geisha in Kimiko. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, was first published in 1896 at a time when Japan was largely unknown to the Western world. Kokoro (心) which translates as 'heart' in English offers the reader the first glimpses into pre-industrial and Meji era Japan.Today the works of LafcadioHearn aremostly forgotten in the West and are fading fromthememories of the Japanese, butHearn's work still offers valuable insight into Japan and its customs.

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