Lafcadio Hearn's lamp stand

MATSUE, Japan - Photo shows a lamp stand at the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum dedicated to naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Yakumo Koizumi, in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2012. The museum was recently given the lamp, which was originally a gift from Hearn to Kenjiro Ume, a jurist. Born to an Irish father and Greek mother, Hearn arrived in Japan in 1890 and married a Japanese woman in Matsue, where he lived for a while. He introduced Japan's traditional culture to the world before passing away at the age of 54.