Exotics and Retrospectives
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Foreword
1:39 -
EXOTICS: I Fuji-No-Yama
48:14 -
II Insect Musicians
46:59 -
III A Question in the Zen Texts
10:53 -
IV The Literature of the Dead, Part 1
42:51 -
IV The Literature of the Dead, Part 2
28:33 -
V Frogs
19:33 -
VI Of Moon-Desire
12:48 -
RETROSPECTIVES: VII First Impressions
14:08 -
VIII Beauty is Memory
11:47 -
IX Sadness in Beauty
10:25 -
X Parfum de Jeunesse
5:21 -
XI Azure Psychology
14:12 -
XII A Serenade
8:53 -
XIII A Red Sunset
13:42 -
XIV Frisson
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XV Vespertina Cognitio
20:52 -
XVI The Eternal Haunter
8:56
Exotics and Retrospectives (1898) is a public domain work.
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A climb up Fuji begins Lafcadio Hearn's 1898 collection of essays, placing the sacred mountain beside the practical business of pilgrimage. From an inn at Gotemba, he prepares with experienced guides, warm clothing and a pilgrim's staff before setting out along roads of volcanic sand. His account connects the mountain's appearance with the beliefs, legends and customs surrounding its ascent.
Elsewhere, the sound of frogs in ricefields becomes a way of thinking about how a place lives in memory. Hearn also considers Buddhist inscriptions, explaining the ideas behind their language and the care required to translate them. The second part gathers short reflective pieces about beauty and remembered experience, introduced through a comparison between psychology and Eastern religious thought. Readers interested in Japan, travel writing or the connection between sensation and memory will find a collection that moves from close attention to the physical world into questions of meaning.
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- Lafcadio Hearn
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- Pages
- 159
- Language
- English
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- Philosophy
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