Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan » (Combined)

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a confirmed Japanophile and a renowned interpreter of things Japanese to the West. Hearn's most famous work is a collection of lectures entitled Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan.