Word: koizumi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apropos of your discussion of Kazuo Koizumi's Father and I (TIME, June...
...fancy that Koizumi, who "does not mention . . . that . . . Hearn was compelled to support 13 people on his small salary," also fails to mention that Hearn's salary at the Government college at Kumamoto was reduced soon after Hearn became a citizen of Japan-ostensibly because a "native" could not possibly be worth as much as a "foreigner...
FATHER AND I-Kazuo Koizumi- Houghton Mifflin...
...scholar and journalist; in the West Indies, where he renounced Western civilization. In 1890 he settled in Japan, married a member of a distinguished Samurai family, became a Japanese citizen and professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, adopted his wife's family name of Koizumi ("Little Spring"). He produced eleven volumes of interpretation of Oriental life and literature, raised three sons and a daughter...
Very little of Lafcadio Hearn's background appears in his son's reminiscences, largely because, like many sons, Kazuo Koizumi overestimates the extent of the world's familiarity with his father's career. Eleven years old when his father died, Kazuo Koizumi writes of him with affection and candor, draws a portrait of a strict, sensitive, nervous, sometimes self-pitying man who was dominated by fear of an early death, tells an occasional anecdote that throws a cold realistic light on the romance of Hearn's expatriation and marriage. That the son has thought deeply...