July 22-26

Tutors: William Braithwaite and Lijun Gu
The author Lafcadio Hearn tells us, “Kokoro (heart) signifies the mind, in the emotional sense; as we say in English, ‘the heart of things.’” Hearn grew up in Greece and Ireland and settled in Japan. He taught English literature in Tokyo, married a Japanese woman, and became a citizen. These poignant stories sketch a Japan vanishing under new ideas of modernity and tradition, establishing Hearn as a perceptive observer of things Japanese for Western readers.

Text: Lafcadio Hearn, Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life. Tuttle Publishing, ISBN 978-4805317204