Iaponiia epokhi Meidzi - Khirn L.

Anglo-Irish-American orientalist and writer Lafcadio Hearn lived an amazing life. Born in Greece, raised in Ireland, began a career in the U.S., where in the era of legalized racial segregation he married a black woman, lived on Martinique, studied voodoo rites, then went to Japan and stayed there forever, became a professor at the University of Tokyo, accepted Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo and married for the second time the daughter of a samurai. Hearn's visit to Japan came during the Meiji period, so named after the motto of emperor Mutsuhito (1868-1912). It was a time when Japan, having refused self-isolation, began to turn into a world power. Teaching the Japanese English, Hirn himself learned: learned the intricacies of the language, absorbed the spirit of Japan. Here began his literary life, which brought him world fame. This book includes ethnocultural texts, which are mostly published in Russian language for the first time, about the lifestyle, everyday life, customs, manners and beliefs of the Japanese.