[AnAmericanMother]

Chita is a terrible story.

I love Lafcadio Hearn's work. He is a bit flowery for modern taste, but he had the root of the matter in him.

Did you know that he wound up in Japan, married a lady of samurai family, and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo?

[CobaltBlue]

Yes, I have a lot of Lafcadio Hearn's books, including some that were written in Japan. Did you know he was legally blind? He let his imagination fill in what he could not see, and his imagination "saw" beautiful things, which always impressed me. I don't think he ever met an ugly woman, to him they were all beautiful.