![]() On that year, he moved to Tôkyô and began to teach at the Imperial University of Tôkyô. He took this name from "Kojiki," a Japanese ancient myth, which roughly translates as "the place where the clouds are born". Hearn worked as a journalist in Kôbé and afterward in 1896 got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the school of that time, spread judo to the world. ![]() In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and taught at the fifth high school for three years. In Matsué, he got acquainted with Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher and his lifelong friend, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai. He afterward moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané prefectural middle school. He arrived in Yokohama, but because of a dissatisfaction with the contract, he quickly quit the job. After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosa Cassimati (Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη in Greek), a Greek woman, bore Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν in Greek or 小泉八雲 in Japanese), a son, to Charles Hearn, an army doctor from Ireland. Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan people note his collections of stories and essays, including Kokoro (1896), under pen name Koizumi Yakumo. ![]()
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