"Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?""
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Letter to Ernest Fenollosa, August 1891, cited from Elizabeth Bisland (ed.) Life and Letters (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922) vol. 2, p. 160.
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Lafcadio Hearn
Patricio Lafcadio Carlos Hearne (27 June 1850 β 26 September 1904) was a Greek-born journalist, author and academic. He was brought up
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