Male : Novelist, Orientalist, Philosopher & Travel Writer. Father was a Surgeon in the British Army and mother Greek. Emigrated to America in 1869, and then Martinique. In 1890 he moved to Japan, married into a Samurai family and became a Japanese citizen with the name of Koizumi Yakumo

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Santa Maura, Lefkas, Ionian Islands

Date of Birth : 1850 Date of Death : 1904 Age : 54

Other Work : Chair of Eng Lit at Imperial University, Tokyo

Education : Jesuit schools in France & England

1882-1890
(Trans of Theophile Gautier) One of Cleopatra's Nights (1882 Worthington, US)
Stray Leaves from Strange Literatures : Stories Reconstructed
(1884 James R Osgood, Boston) - 1000 in blue cloth binding
(1903 Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner)
La Cuisine Creole : A Collection of Culinary recipes (1885 W H Coleman, US)
(1922 Hansell & Bros, US)
Gombo Zhebes : A Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs (1885 Coleman, NY)
Offered in 1999 for £225
Historical Sketch Book & Guide to New Orleans & Environs (1885 Coleman, NY)
Some Chinese Ghosts (1887 Roberts Bros, Boston) (1887 Kegan Paul)
(Trans of Theophile Gautier) Tales from Theophile Gautier (1888 Brentano)
Chita : A Memory of a Last Island (1889 Harper) - 2000 in brown cloth binding
(1898 Harper) - orange cloth
Youma : The Story of a West Indian Slave (1890 Harper)
Two Years in the French West Indies (1890 Harper NY) - 2000 in green cloth binding
(1923 Harper) - illus from photos by A W Rushmore & drawings by Marie Royle
The Boy Who Drew Cats : Japanese Fairy Tales (nd. 1890 Hasegawa, Yokyo)
(Trans of Anatole France) The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1890 Harper)
(1938 JL, Bodley Head - 500)

1891-1900
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols. 1000 sets in green cloth
Offered in 1998 for £295
(1894 Osgood McIlvaine) - 2 vols
Out of the East : Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1895 Houghton Mifflin)
(1895 Osgood McIlvaine)
Gleanings in Buddha Fields : Studies of Hand & Soul in the Far East (1897 Harper) - blue cloth binding
(1903 Kegal Paul) (1927 Cape)
Kokoro : Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896 Houghton Mifflin) - 2000 in olive green cloth
(1895 Osgood McIlvaine)
Exotics and Retrospectives (1898 Little Brown, Boston)
(1898 Sampson Low)
(Trans) The Boy Who Drew Cats (1898 T Hasegawa, Tokyo)
In Ghostly Japan (1899 Little Brown)
Offered in 1998 for £250
(1899 Sampson Low)
(Trans) The Goblin Spider (1899 T Hasegawa, Tokyo)
(Trans of Theophile Gautier) Clarimonde and Other Stories (1899 Brentano) (1903 Jack)
Shadowings (1900 Little Brown, Boston)
Offered in 1999 for £515
(1900 Sampson Low)

1901-1910
A Japanese Miscellany (1901 Little Brown)
(1901 Sampson Low)
Kotto : Being Japanese Curios with Sundry Cobwebs (1902 Macmillan NY)
(1902 Macmillan) - Genjiro Yeto
Offered in 1999 for £515
(Trans) The Old Woman who Lost Her Dumpling (1902 T Hasewaga, Tokyo)
(Trans) No. 25 : Chin Chin Kobakama (1903 T Hasewaga, Tokyo)
Japan : An Attempt at Interpretation (1904 Macmillan NY)
Kwaidan : Stories & Studies of Strange Things (1904 Houghton Mifflin) - 2000 in blue green binding
(1904 Kegan Paul)
The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories
(1905 Houghton Mifflin) - 2000 grey cloth
(1905 Constable) (1910 Tauchnitz)
Letters from the Raven : Being the Letters of Hearn with Henry Watkin (1907 Brentano's NY)
(1908 Constable)
The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1910 Houghton Mifflin) (1910 Constable)
(Trans of Gustave Flaubert) The Temptation of St Anthony (1910 Alice Harrington, US)
(1911 Grant Richards)

1911-1925
Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist : Early Writings (1911 Houghton Mifflin) - 575
Fantastics Fancies (1914 Boston)
(Trans) Japanese Lyrics (1915 Houghton Mifflin - 1000) (1915 Constable - 1500)
Interpretations of Literature (1916 Heinemann) - 2 vols
Appreciations of Poetry (1916 Dodd Mead) (1919 Heinemann)
Karma and Other Stories and Essays (1918 Boni & Liveright) (1921 Harrap)
Books and Habits (1922 Heinemann)
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1922 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols
Pre-Raphaelite & Other Poets : Lectures (1922 Dodd Mead) (1923 Heinemann)
The Writings : Koizumi Edition (1922 Houghton Mifflin) - 750 Numbered sets. 16 vols
Essays in European & Oriental Literature (1923 Dodd Mead, NY) - 2571 copies
Miscellanies : Articles and Stories (1924 Heinemann) - 2 vols
(Trans of Guy de Maupassant) Saint Anthony and Other Stories (1924 Boni)
Creole Sketches (1924 Houghton Mifflin)
Offered in 1998 for £200
Occidental Gleanings : Sketches and Essays (1925 Dodd Mead) (1925 Heinemann)

After 1926
Editorials (1926 Houghton Mifflin) - 250 Large Paper
Insects and Greek Poetry (1926 Rudge, NY) - 550
Some Strange English Literary Figures of the 18th & 19thC's (1927 Hokuseido Press)
A History of English Literature, In a Series of Lectures (1927 Hokuseido Press, Tokyo 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
Lectures on Shakespeare (1928 Hokuseido Press, Tokyo)
Buying Christmas Toys : Essays (1930 Hokuseido Press, Tokyo) - 180
Kwaidan : Stories & Studies of Strange Things (1932 Ltd Eds Club, Tokyo) - 1500. Yasumasa Fujita
(Trans of Emile Zola) Stories from Emile Zola (1935 Hokuseido, Tokyo)
Japanese Fairy Tales (1936 The Peter Pauper Press, Mt Vernon) - decorations Valenti Angelo
Barbarous Barbers Stories (1939 Hokuseido Press, Tokyo) - 250
Literary Essays (1939 Hokuseido Press)
Lectures on Tennyson (1941 Hokuseido Press) - 500
(Trans) The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Tales (1963 Collier-Macmillan, US)
Earless Ho-Ichi (1966 Kodansha Int, Tokyo)
Ye Giglampz : A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Art, Literature & Satire
(1983 Crossroads Books & Public Library of Cincinnati) - 100

READING
Elizabeth Bisland : The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols
+ De Luxe Edition of 200 copies (1906 Houghton Mifflin)
(1906 Constable)
George M Gould : Concerning Lafcadio Hearn, with a Bibliography by Laura Stedman
(1908 Fisher Unwin)
Yone Noguchi : Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (1910 Elkin Mathews 6/-) - woodcuts by Shoshu Saito
Nina H Kennard : Lafcadio Hearn (1911 Eveleigh Nash)
Edward Thomas : Lafcadio Hearn (1912 Constable)
Kazuo Koizumi : Father and I - Memories of Lafcadio hearn (1918 Houghton Mifflin)
Setsuko Koizumi : Reminiscences of Lafcadio hearn (1918 Houghton Mifflin)
E L Tinker : Lafcadio Hearn's American Days (1925 London)
Oscar Lewis : Hearn and His Biographers (1930 Westgate Press, SF) - 350
Beongcheon Yu : An Ape of the Gods - The Art & Thought of Lafcadio Hearn (1964 Wayne State UP)
Paul Murray : A Fantastic Journey - The Life & Literature of Lafcadio Hearn
(1997 Curzon £18)
(Ed) Sean G Ronan : Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn & Japan - Writer, Journalist & Teacher
(1997 Global, Folkstone £16.50)
Sukehiro Hirakawa : Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn - Japanese Legends, Life & Culture
(1997 Global Oriental £20)
Elizabeth Stevenson : The Glass Lark - A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1998 Transaction £20)
Yuzo Ota : Basil hall Chamberlain - Portrait of a Japanologist (1998 Curzon £40)
[The 2nd part of this book concerns Hearn]