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Femmes du Japon – Puissance et secrets

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Les récits et les légendes rapportés par Lafcadio Hearn mettent en scène des femmes dans le Japon du XIXe siècle : entre, passion, devoir et honneur ces textes révèlent la puissance et les secrets des femmes japonaises qu'elles soient geishas, courtisanes, artistes ou femmes du peuple.
Infiniment discrète, sensuelle et raffinée, la femme japonaise telle qu’on la représente fascine. Mais ne vous méprenez pas, au-delà de sa réserve et de sa grâce, son ardeur, sa ténacité et sa force de caractère se révèlent…   Découvrez le quotidien des femmes du Japon à la fin du XIXe siècle. Passez derrière les paravents : dans cette société qui semble les cantonner au foyer familial, vous croiserez en fait les destins de femmes ordinaires ou hors du commun – geisha ou femme du peuple, épouse trahie ou amante passionnée – femmes éprises de liberté.   Femmes du Japon – Puissance et secrets nous plonge au cœur des valeurs, des coutumes, de la sagesse et de l’imaginaire japonais à travers sept textes choisis de Lafcadio Hearn illustrés par les plus grands maîtres de l’estampe.     Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), à la suite d’une vie d’épreuves et de voyages l’ayant mené d’Irlande en Ohio et de la Louisiane aux Antilles françaises, a fini par découvrir au Japon ce qu’il cherchait depuis toujours : émerveillement, sentiment d’appartenance et sérénité. Marié à la fille d’un samouraï, il est l’un des rares Occidentaux à avoir obtenu la nationalité japonaise. Ses écrits ont largement contribué à mieux faire connaître le Japon et sa culture en Occident.

208 pages, Paperback

Published May 10, 2023

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Lafcadio Hearn

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Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan; people note his collections of stories and essays, including Kokoro (1896), under pen name Koizumi Yakumo.

Rosa Cassimati (Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη in Greek), a Greek woman, bore Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν in Greek or 小泉八雲 in Japanese), a son, to Charles Hearn, an army doctor from Ireland. After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. He arrived in Yokohama, but because of a dissatisfaction with the contract, he quickly quit the job. He afterward moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané prefectural middle school. In Matsué, he got acquainted with Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher and his lifelong friend, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai.
In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and taught at the fifth high school for three years. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the school of that time, spread judo to the world.

Hearn worked as a journalist in Kôbé and afterward in 1896 got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. He took this name from "Kojiki," a Japanese ancient myth, which roughly translates as "the place where the clouds are born". On that year, he moved to Tôkyô and began to teach at the Imperial University of Tôkyô. He got respect of students, many of whom made a remarkable literary career. In addition, he wrote much reports of Japan and published in America. So many people read his works as an introduction of Japan. He quit the Imperial University in 1903 and began to teach at Waseda University on the year next. Nevertheless, after only a half year, he died of angina pectoris.

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