Comments on: Lafcadio Hearn Photo in Ireland http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2010/08/09/lafcadio-hearn-photo-in-ireland/ My life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile. Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doug http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2010/08/09/lafcadio-hearn-photo-in-ireland/#comment-4455 Doug Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:32:25 +0000 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/?p=8340#comment-4455 Hi Robert, Wow, those links are awesome. That warrants a post all by itself. :D Yeah, I actually really like Hearn, but I also think he wasn't perfect either, and like you pointed out, very much a product of his times. His writings includes lots of talk about race-consciousness and such, but he was obviously not a supremacist either, just using the vocabulary people knew at the time. Interesting to see how different people thought 100 years ago though. Hi Robert,

Wow, those links are awesome. That warrants a post all by itself. :D

Yeah, I actually really like Hearn, but I also think he wasn’t perfect either, and like you pointed out, very much a product of his times. His writings includes lots of talk about race-consciousness and such, but he was obviously not a supremacist either, just using the vocabulary people knew at the time. Interesting to see how different people thought 100 years ago though.

]]> By: Robert http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2010/08/09/lafcadio-hearn-photo-in-ireland/#comment-4450 Robert Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:13:07 +0000 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/?p=8340#comment-4450 linky goodness ! thank you. Should anyone ever go to see that plaque, that end of Gardiner street near the Bus Station is perfectly fine. The house, now a B&B, is at the end near Beresford place. You might find these illustrations interesting to go with Japanese ghost stories. http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/bakemono-zukushi-monster-scroll/ they also have some great 1970's illustrations as well http://pinktentacle.com/2010/07/macabre-kids-book-art-by-gojin-ishihara/ I think Hearn might have been a man of his time in terms of romanticism and support for Japanese expansion. All the major powers were expansionist and had imperial ambitions. Everyone wanted their slice of China. I'd say Japan had a very real fear of ending up like China. Supporting one's country's ambitions, regardless of the morality of those ambitions, would have been much more of a virtue in the 19th century than the 21st. ( leading to two world wars eventually though ) linky goodness ! thank you.
Should anyone ever go to see that plaque, that end of Gardiner street near the Bus Station is perfectly fine. The house, now a B&B, is at the end near Beresford place.

You might find these illustrations interesting to go with Japanese ghost stories.
http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/bakemono-zukushi-monster-scroll/
they also have some great 1970′s illustrations as well
http://pinktentacle.com/2010/07/macabre-kids-book-art-by-gojin-ishihara/

I think Hearn might have been a man of his time in terms of romanticism and support for Japanese expansion. All the major powers were expansionist and had imperial ambitions. Everyone wanted their slice of China. I’d say Japan had a very real fear of ending up like China. Supporting one’s country’s ambitions, regardless of the morality of those ambitions, would have been much more of a virtue in the 19th century than the 21st. ( leading to two world wars eventually though )

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