The back cover blurb for Lafcadio Hearn¡¯s ¡°Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life¡± says the book is the writer¡¯s ¡°love letter to Japan.¡± Despite Hearn¡¯s reputation as an eternal romantic, however, the collection of essays and short fiction does not contain love stories in any traditional sense.
Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life, by Lafcadio Hearn.256 pagesTUTTLE PUBLISHING, Fiction and nonfiction.
As Hearn points out, the word ¡°kokoro¡± not only means heart, but ¡°also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection, and inner meaning, ¡ª just as we say in English, ¡®the heart of things.¡¯¡±
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