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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life.

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Lafcadio Hearn gallery opens in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Visitors examine the exhibits at a gallery commemorating Lafcadio Hearn, a writer who devoted his life to introducing Japan to the West in the 19th century, on the Greek island of Lefkada on July 4, 2014. Launched on the 110th anniversary of the writer's death, the gallery opened at the birthplace of Hearn, who was born to an Irish father and a Greek mother in 1850 and worked as a journalist in the United States before going to Japan in 1890. He became a naturalized Japanese before he died in 1904.

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Opening of Yakumo Koizumi museum in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - A Seiwa Bunraku puppet from Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, cuts the tape on July 4, 2014, to celebrate the opening of a memorial museum for Meiji-period writer Yakumo Koizumi, whose real name was Lafcadio Hearn, on Greece's Lefkada island where he was born in 1850. He moved to Japan and lived in such places as Kumamoto and Matsue.

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Lafcadio Hearn gallery opens in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Bon Koizumi, a great grandson of Lafcadio Hearn, a writer who devoted his life to introducing Japan to the West in the 19th century, speaks at the opening on July 4, 2014, of a gallery on the Greek island of Lefkada. Launched on the 110th anniversary of Hearn's death, the new gallery at Hearn's birthplace exhibits his memorabilia including a manuscript of "Kwaidan" (1904), a collection of old Japanese ghost stories and one of Hearn's most famous works.

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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.

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Hearn exhibition in Matsue

MATSUE, Japan - The inside of the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, is pictured on March 30, 2012, ahead of a year-long exhibition from April 1, 2012. It follows through photographs the footsteps of writer Lafcadio Hearn, who became a naturalized Japanese known as Yakumo Koizumi.

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T-shirt of Hearn's book introducing word 'tsunami

MATSUE, Japan - Hisao Nakamura, president of Nakamura Chaho Corp., holds a T-shirt carrying an image of Lafcadio Hearn's 1897 book that introduced the word ''tsunami'' to the world, in Matsue, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2011. The T-shirt project is aimed at supporting victims of the March earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Japan, Ireland to mark centennial of Hearn's death

TOKYO, Japan - Lafcadio Hearn in his Kobe days from 1894 to 1896, during which he worked as a journalist at the Kobe Chronicle, an English-language newspaper.

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Unpublished Hearn biography found in London

LONDON, England - This manuscript of an unpublished critical biography of Lafcadio Hearn, who was influential in shaping Western views of Japan through his books, has been found in a secondhand book market in London. The handwritten manuscript, penned in the 1950s by Cesar dos Santos (1907-1974), a Portuguese journalist, was purchased by Sammy Tsunematsu, curator of the Soseki Museum in London.

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Hearn's museum reopens with more exhibition space

The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum reopens in Matsue, western Japan, on July 16, 2016, with more space to exhibit personal effects and books of naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Yakumo Koizumi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourists listen to storyteller during "ghost tour" in western Japan

Tourists listen to a storyteller at Matsue Castle in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on May 16, 2015, during a "ghost tour" to visit places mentioned in the story "Kwaidan" by Greece-born writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, better known as Koizumi Yakumo in Japan, who lived in various parts of the country until his death in 1904. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Storytellers point to stone turtle during "ghost tour" in west Japan

Female storytellers in traditional Japanese "hakama" costumes point to a big stone turtle as seen in this photo taken on March 24, 2015. The stone image is located midway in a "ghost tour" to visit places mentioned in the story "Kwaidan" by Greece-born writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known by the Japanese name of Koizumi Yakumo, who lived in various parts of the country until his death in 1904. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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T-shirt of Hearn's book introducing word 'tsunami

MATSUE, Japan - Hisao Nakamura, president of Nakamura Chaho Corp., holds a T-shirt carrying an image of Lafcadio Hearn's 1897 book that introduced the word ''tsunami'' to the world, in Matsue, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2011. The T-shirt project is aimed at supporting victims of the March earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Hearn exhibition in Matsue

MATSUE, Japan - The inside of the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, is pictured on March 30, 2012, ahead of a year-long exhibition from April 1, 2012. It follows through photographs the footsteps of writer Lafcadio Hearn, who became a naturalized Japanese known as Yakumo Koizumi. (Kyodo)

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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life. (Kyodo)

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Lafcadio Hearn gallery opens in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Bon Koizumi, a great grandson of Lafcadio Hearn, a writer who devoted his life to introducing Japan to the West in the 19th century, speaks at the opening on July 4, 2014, of a gallery on the Greek island of Lefkada. Launched on the 110th anniversary of Hearn's death, the new gallery at Hearn's birthplace exhibits his memorabilia including a manuscript of "Kwaidan" (1904), a collection of old Japanese ghost stories and one of Hearn's most famous works. (Kyodo)

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Unpublished Hearn biography found in London

LONDON, England - This manuscript of an unpublished critical biography of Lafcadio Hearn, who was influential in shaping Western views of Japan through his books, has been found in a secondhand book market in London. The handwritten manuscript, penned in the 1950s by Cesar dos Santos (1907-1974), a Portuguese journalist, was purchased by Sammy Tsunematsu, curator of the Soseki Museum in London.