1. With Yakumo Koizumi who loved Japan and spread Japanese culture among foreign countries?

It's born in Greece. It's to Japan via writing activity in the United States.

Yakumo Koizumi and birth name Patrick Lafcadio Hearn were born at a Greek REFUKADA island in 1850 (1850), and grew up in Ireland. The left eye is lost in an accident at school at 16 years old. I begin to migrate to the United States by 19 years old and walk the way as a journalist.
Yakumo which was being attracted by Japanese culture through "The Kojiki" etc. of the expo and the English translation opened in New Orleans while an account of a trip and a version were expanding the width of the achievement as a writing person. I got off in Japan of want (in 1890) in 1890.

Assignment to Matsue. Encounter with Seth Koizumi

Yakumo where they visited Japan assigns to the Shimane prefecture high school of old system in Matsue and teacher school as an English teacher. Employed one was Seth Koizumi to look after surroundings. Seth will operate on a house in Yakumo by living, and two people come to live as a married couple soon.
And it was "HERUN word" that I was born from a wall of a word as English and Japanese. The nickname when Matsue's people call Yakumo to "Mr. HERUN" "HERUN teacher" with HERUN. The word order omits a Japanese particle and is English and a peculiar word as Japanese combining, and two people are deepening a bond.

"National capital of gods" living by Matsue

Yakumo where I played an active part as an English teacher at Matsue. Charm will be found in a custom, culture and spirit of the Japan ancient times which are left at the place where gods of eight million breathe through an exchange with pupil's students and people in the town.
One piece by which it's the first book "the Japanese image which isn't learned about" that such one day by Matsue was written after visit to Japan "national capital of gods". A legend includes the scene of the castle town again vividly, and streets in Matsue, Ichii's people, nature and a creature are described in whether it's susceptibility Yutaka.

Japanese nationality is acquired by 46 years old. And "ghost story" to birth.

The back away from Matsue who lived for about 1 year and 3 months is Kumamoto, Kobe, Tokyo and Yakumo where I emigrated and taught in Imperial University and Waseda University. Naturalization is admitted at 46 years old, and I change my name with "Yakumo Koizumi". The customary epithet by which it takes poetry in the Japanese oldest when I appear on "The Kojiki" for "Izumo" "Yakumo is left." is said to be origin for a name in Yakumo.

Yakumo where Japanese culture was introduced in foreign countries to various works until it was blessed with Mitsuo Ichijo and I ended my life by 54 years old in 1904 (1904). Of a folk tale and a ghost story strange tale of the Japan ancient times where Seth who liked a story told Yakumo about a source of a masterpiece in the sunset "ghost story", it was various. Yakumo, the ghost story work invented as personal interpretation and "re-talk" by an expression is also pregnant with the affection, painful and dear if concerning, by which awe is a person in the fear, and a deep lingering tone is left as literary work.
"Ear nothing Kaoru, one" "snow fairy", "potter's wheel neck" and "badger".
I also read the "ghost story" Seth spun together with Yakumo now as the immortal famous story everyone knows and am succeeded to.

2. Spot of Yakumo Yukari who would like to visit at Matsue

Lafecadio Hearn Memorial Museum

The museum Mr. Koizumi bon who is a great-grandchild in Yakumo neighbors Yakumo Koizumi's former residence and where serves as a director. The life and achievement are being introduced by a graphic and a picture on the concept of the opened spirit which isn't seized with a prejudice in Yakumo "open mind".
Cherished items such as a desk, a chair, clothes and a pipe and valuable various articles of an autograph manuscript, the first edition book and the family photograph are kept and exhibited at museum. If I had an interest in a work in Yakumo, a right or wrong book and a related note are to the library where I line up. How about being flooded with the world Yakumo spins slowly?

Yakumo Koizumi former residence

It's approximately 1 year and 3 months that Yakumo lived at Matsue. It's opened as a former residence at present at a Samurai residence of an old Matsue clansman and Negishi person that I spent 5 months in the second half. Yakumo where "It looked like a dwelling in a Samurai residence with a garden." was being hoped. The garden where three sides in a residence is circled, very, the beauty the trees and a stone produce and charm in the garden where a creature of a bug lies love and are written in one piece of a book "the Japanese image which isn't learned about" "Japanese garden". The image in the at that time when Yakumo and Seth lived in everywhere can be felt including a beautiful garden at a former residence.

3. A ghost story and a strange tale are also to the place where I breathe now.

Matsue Ohashi

One in the Matsue city is separated off in north and south and it's installed in case of Matsue castle construction of a castle (in 1608) in 1608 at the bridge which spans the big bridge river which flows. 17 generations of present bridge is enjoying a citizen as a symbol of Miyako Matsue of water by an eye.
To catch an eye by the south packing in a bridge, "Gensuke memorial service monument". Because the first construction had a rough passage, the one made a human sacrifice was Gensuke, and a central pier was called "Gensuke pillar". Yakumo is recording this regrettable legend on "the Japanese image which isn't learned about".
It's musical and it seems to be a big ball and Yakumo is describing the tone of the Japanese wooden clogs of the people who cross a bridge in a that book with something difficult to leave.

Matsue castle

Yoshiharu Horio of a family of Matsue opening of the shogunate builds a castle for 1607-1611 (1607-1611). It's designated as national treasure by one of existence Tenshu where I say only 12 castles to the country. There is a watchtower looked around 360 times in the top floor, and you can get a bird's-eye view of a Matsue city district and Shinji-ko Lake.
Matsue-jo where the various talk which concerns construction of a castle is left. Stone wall making didn't work, and the one chosen as a human sacrifice was good-looking and was my daughter good at a dance. Because a castle is shaken when the Bon dance has since then under the castle, it's said that the Bon dance isn't performed around the Matsue castle even now.
Yakumo collects something weird, and when it seems to be the dragon which could be done, expresses Matsue castle by a book "the Japanese image which isn't learned about", and also touches this daughter's talk.

Fumonin

Temple of 1607-Tendai Sect which was established when Matsue-jo and a castle town were built around 1611 (1607-1611). Taste with a shin shaped pond feels an abundant garden is wide in a precinct.
The tea-ceremony room of Sansai Hosokawa school where Matsue Matsudaira of a feudal clan family seven generation seigneur and Matsudaira-Harusato (that it was spread) often enjoyed matters for Japanese tea ceremony by a daimyo master of ceremonial tea with Fumai's (bran performance) number in the "moon-viewing hermitage" built in a precinct. It's said that Yakumo also received the rudiments of tea at a moon-viewing hermitage.
I also appear on the "Japanese image when an iris of a song (iris) is sung in the "polish bridge of adzuki beans" which was in front of Fumonin formerly, there is a legend a trouble happens to shake, and which is Yakumo which isn't learned about as a ghost story.

Joyama Inarijinja

Matsue Matsudaira of a feudal clan family first seigneur and Naomasa Matsudaira establish (in 1638) in 1638. The year of the imperial festival god's visit performed every 10 years "Hoe orchid En doesn't like that." is one of Japanese three big ship Shinto Ceremony, and the big ship matrices by about 100 ships are highlights.
To compare with a precinct, a appearance is also various stone foxes. Also glisten on Yakumo in the stone fox with the abundant individuality, I say that I have often gone.
The legend which concerns shrine foundation in a book in Yakumo "the Japanese image which isn't learned about". When Naomasa Matsudaira entered Matsue, the good-looking boy who will introduce himself as god of the harvest Makoto Saemon tells to protect under the castle from fire appearing and when building me a residence, and it's said that they disappeared. So that company was built, a large number of stone foxes also watch a shrine a historical origin and now.

4. Japanese Sweets of Yakumo favorite, for a gift.

Ichirigi hall Kyomise main store "Hearn's steamed red bean jelly"

Matsue renowned as "Japan three large snack place" as well as Kyoto and Kanazawa. The cha-no-yu culture Matsue Matsudaira of a feudal clan family seven generation seigneur who knows and Matsudaira-Harusato (brown number Fumai) built as a daimyo master of ceremonial tea is also breathing now. The orders which start the Ichirigi hall in the Horeki year of the Edo Period (1751-1764), and they're a generation after generation Matsue feudal clan more than the first, snack place by the long-established store where I worked.
One sweet tooth Yakumo likes in particular is steamed red bean jelly, and it's said that Seth of my wife ordered from Matsue after I move to Tokyo. "Hearn's steamed red bean jelly" is the proud gem which was reproduced based on the process book Ichirigi hall Muyo aim host recorded to make the taste of the at that time be revived.

5. A worldview in Yakumo is tasted by a stay program of "Hoshino Resorts KAI Tamatsukuri" "the travel to which Yakumo Koizumi is traced".

Hot spring ryokan "Hoshino Resorts KAI Tamatsukuri" which pauses in Tamatsukurihot spring called one of hot spring in the Japanese oldest. Shimane's sake of a superior brand called seafoods from San-in region and material of sake origination and Activity which touches Shimane's traditional culture and mingei can be enjoyed including bathing in Outdoor hot spring had by whole Guest room. A stay program "the travel to which Yakumo Koizumi is traced back" is put into effect until March 20, 2026. I know Yakumo deeply and how about being flooded with the worldview?

I go around the location of the Yakumo relation by rickshaw.

"Rickshaw guide tour" then, the temple where Yakumo was Yakumo Koizumi former residence, Matsue Ohashi and a stage of a ghost story by the rickshaw used preferably goes around the location of the relation. The landscape Yakumo would see while asking the tour guide's guide who knew everything of Matsue, tsui Experience, can, a private tour.

It's satisfied with a ghost story while tasting "Yakumo liquor set".

The "ghost story tea-ceremony room" where the pleasure of night is held in the tea-ceremony room in the building. Yakumo is invited to the world of a spun ghost story by the reading aloud in which explanation in a background of a life in Yakumo and "ghost story" writing and original picture production of "snow fairy" and "ear nothing Kaoru, one" which continue were included first.
"Yakumo liquor set" of the Japanese confection "yolk late autumn shower" and the sake to which the one which can be tasted according to the famous story says that Yakumo was fond of an appetizer of drink at dinner. Yolk late autumn shower is the Hoshino Resorts KAI Tamatsukuri original using sake in bean paste. Sake becomes impure and a seed prepares 3 kinds. It can be satisfied with a story of jewelry as well as the delicious sake.