Word: yakumo
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...Orleans. The papers were full of shocked, incredulous, hat-tearing letters to the editor. Once a New Orleans Jack-of-all-journalism, the late Lafcadio, master of delicate lyrical prose, had won his greatest fame as a writer on Japan. He had become a Japanese citizen, taken the name Yakumo Koizumi and a Japanese wife, begot three sons and a daughter. More than one letter last week suggested that his sons might now be killing American soldiers.* People got so excited because the Maritime Commission named a New Orleans-built Liberty ship the Lafcadio Hearn...
...trans-Pacific travel for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He was fascinated by the country and the life, took a Japanese wife, Setsuko Koizumi, daughter of a Samurai. So that he could more easily become a Japanese citizen, he was adopted by Setsuko's family, changed his name to Yakumo (Eight Clouds) Koizumi and later turned Buddhist. He got a job as Professor of English Literature in Tokyo's Imperial University. At that time Western popular knowledge of Japan was still very Gilbert & Sullivan. Lafcadio Hearn took the real Japan to the English-speaking world just as a neurotic...
...Tokyo on Sept. 26, 1904 Yakumo Koizumi died, leaving four children, three of whom still live in his house. An invalid for several years before his death, he had been blind in one eye since he was 16, was painfully nearsighted in the other. As his sight failed he developed a hyper-acute sense of smell. It was Lafcadio Hearn's boast that he could smell the difference between a brunette and a blonde...
Died. Setsuko Koizumi, 69, relict of Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn); of arteriosclerosis; in Tokyo. In 1891 Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to write articles for Harper's Magazine. Quarrelsome, he broke his contract because the illustrator was to get more money than he, was stranded until friends got him a job teaching school in Matsue. There he married Setsuko Koizumi, was adopted into her family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly...
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