"How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her."
— Lafcadio Hearn

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Letter to Basil Hall Chamberlain, cited from Basil Hall Chamberlain Things Japanese (London: Kegan Paul, 1891) p. 453.