“To denounce Hearn is the same thing as a denunciation of Japan. Lafcadio Hearn was as Japanese as haiku.”

—  Lafcadio Hearn

Yone Noguchi Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (London: Elkin Mathews, 1910) p. 20.
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