Born on the Greek island of Lefkada to an Irish father and a Greek mother; his name was Lafcadio Hearn.
He moved to his father's home of Dublin, Ireland; after his parents separated he was raised by a great-aunt.
An accident at school cost him the sight of his left eye.
He went to America and worked as a newspaper reporter.
He came to Japan and became an English teacher at a middle school in Matsue, Shimane.
He married Koizumi Setsu, daughter of a Matsue samurai family, and then moved to the Fifth Higher School in Kumamoto.
He took Japanese nationality under the name Koizumi Yakumo and taught English literature at Tokyo Imperial University.
He published Kwaidan, based on old Japanese tales told him by his wife, and died that same year.
Katsura TarōErwin BälzNogi MaresukeTakaki KanehiroHoshi TōruOgino GinkoIsawa ShūjiTakamura Kōun
People of the Meiji period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.