Japan during the Meiji era
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The Anglo-Irlandsk-American orientalist and writer Lafcadio Hurn lived an amazing life. Born in Greece, raised in Ireland, began his career in the United States, where in the era of legalized racial segregation he took a black woman as his wife, lived on Martinik, studying the rituals of Voodoo, and then left for Japan and stayed there forever, became a professor of Tokyo University, accepted Japanese The name Koizumi Yakumo and married a second time with the daughter of Samurai. Hirn’s arrival in Japan fell on the period of Meiji, named after the motto of the reign of Emperor Mutsuhito (1868 - 1912) It was a time when Japan, abandoning self -isolation, began to turn into a world power. Teaching the Japanese English, Hirn himself studied: he comprehended the subtleties of the tongue, absorbed the spirit of Japan. Here his literary life began, which brought him world fame. The real book includes ethnocultural texts, which for the most part are first published in Russian - about the lifestyle, home use, customs, morals and beliefs of the Japanese
Author:
Author:Hirn Lafkadio
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91678-723-8
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