A Living God - Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) Full Chapter
A Living God -Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) About the Author Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known by his Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was born on the Greek island of Levkas on June 27. He was an international writer, translator, and journalist proficient in English, Greek, and Japanese languages. His father was an Irish serving as an officer-surgeon in the British army and his mother was a Greek. Hearn went to Ireland, England for education and then immigrated to the United States to work as a journalist. While working for the Harper's Magazine, Hearn was sent first to French West Indies in 1887 and then to Japan in 1890. He resigned from his job and became a Japanese citizen adopting the name, Koizumi Yakumo. From 1896 to 1903, he worked as a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He not only studied the Japanese cultu
