Transitory Visions of Unknown Japan

Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan as a correspondent for a magazine, but the Land of the Rising Sun captivated him so much that Hearn remained there until the end of his days – he found a permanent job, got married,... and even changed his name to the local style, becoming Yakumo Koizumi. The collection “Transitory Visions of Unknown Japan” includes sketches and essays written in the first few years after his relocation, dedicated to Japanese traditions, customs, beliefs, and myths. Hearn devoted numerous books to these topics, but it is precisely “Transitory Visions” that most vividly and accurately conveys the first emotions of a person who found themselves in the Land of the Rising Sun – the strongest, yet “weightless and fleeting, like the scent of perfume.” “Transitory Visions of Unknown Japan” brought Hearn fame as an authoritative oriental scholar and remained one of the main sources of information about the distant eastern country for many years. For the first time in Russian – the first part of the collection “Transitory Visions of Unknown Japan”!