A DEAD SECRET from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things: Learning to Read Japanese: Elementary Reading

by Lafcadio Hearn, Yakumo Koizumi, Minoru Sunagawa

A DEAD SECRET from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
by Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo)

Learning to Read Japanese
http://readjapanese.byoubu.com

This book was translated into easy Japanese to learn to read Japanese.
You can read Japanese.
1) All of the sentences are written in Hiragana so that you can understand it without having to know any of the Chinese characters.
2) All of the sentences contain the English translation of each word and each sentence.
3) All of the sentences contain spaces between each word to understand grammar correctly.
Enjoy Reading Japanese

Genres: Short Stories, Horror

89 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1904

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25⭐

The story of a rich merchant named Inamuraya Gensuke, who sends his beautiful daughter O-Sono to Kyoto for education. Four years after her marriage to a family friend, a merchant named Nagaraya, O-Sono falls ill and dies. On the night of her funeral, her small son claims to see her return, only to find her figure is only partially visible, leading to fear and confusion among the family when she continues to return night after night.

The story of a rich merchant named Inamuraya Gensuke, who sends his clever daughter O-Sono to Kyoto for education. After her marriage to a merchant named Nagaraya, O-Sono falls ill and dies. On the night of her funeral, her son claims to see her return, only to find her figure is only partially visible, leading to fear and confusion among the family.

[Tym · Rating 4 out of 5]

A ghost story with heart.