![]() In 1890, he was sent by Harper’s to Japan, the move which really changed his life and which would give him his (mostly posthumous) fame as a writer. There he worked first as a journalist in Cincinnati (where he first encountered Buddhism), then on to New Orleans, after which (1887) he shipped to the French West Indies, continuing his career as a journalist and writer. ![]() At nineteen he’d had enough of, among his great-aunt’s other petty cruelties, being locked by himself in dark rooms, terrified by hellfire and damnation threats as a child, so he took off for what he hoped would be greener pastures in the United States. After a short time together in Lefkada his parents both exited his life for ever (his father deployed to India and his mother choosing to remain in Greece), and Lafcadio was sent to live with a wealthy great-aunt, first in Ireland and then in England. He was born on the Ionian island of Lefkada, where legend has it that the poet Sappho jumped from a cliff after rejection by her lover Phaon his Irish father and Greek mother named him after the island. ![]() Trans-culturalism is personified in the life and career of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). ![]()
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