His writings about his adopted homeland, particularly his retelling of ghost stories and supernatural tales, are credited with sparking Western interest in Japanese Literature and culture. His wanderings ended when he reached Japan in 1890, where he would adopt the name Koizumi Yakumo and became a naturalized citizen. The son of a Irish father and Greek mother, Hearn lived an itinerant life, first in Europe then America, serving as a journalist in and around New Orleans (much of his American Writings, including his obituary of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, were published in a Library of America Volume). Japanese ghost stories, or “Kaidan” (怪談, sometimes transliterated as kwaidan), were first popularized for English readers by Lafcadio Hearn. Outside of the British Isles, no other region of the world has a stronger tradition of ghost stories than China and Japan. Frightful Friday | The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hôïchi
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