The 15 essays collected here examine the inner spiritual life of Japan through the people that make Japan the unique place it is. The word "Kokora" itself can be translated as "heart," "spirit" or "inner meaning," and that's exactly what this title teaches us about Japan.
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Dr. Patricia M. Welch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages
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Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first great interpreters of things Japanese for Western readers. His keen intellect, poetic imagination and clear style have ensured him a devoted readership for more than a century.
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The Heart of Things,
This review is from: Kokoro: Hints and Echos of Japanese Inner Life (Tuttle Classics) (Paperback)
"Kokoro" is a difficult word to translate from Japanese to English. Heart, Spirit, Way of Being...it is all of these things. Rather than attempt a direct translation, Lafcadio Hearn offers a selection of stories focusing on Japanese inner life, so that by the end you will understand kokoro.
The stories follow Hearn's particular interests of Japanese folklore and the vanishing culture of which he found himself a part in post-Meji Japan. Each story is a slice of life focusing on Japanese character, morals and feelings. This is what the Japanese people care about, what they think is important, what is inside. The selected tales are non-judgmental and non-orientalist. This is no attempt to explain or highlight the "strange" Japanese, but merely a record and an illumination, in the best sense of the term. The collected stories: "At a Railway Station" "The Genius of Japanese Civilization" "A Street Singer" "From a Traveling Diary" "The Nun of the Temple of Amida" "After the War" "Haru" "A Glimpse of Tendencies" "By Force of Karma" "A Conservative" "In the Twilight of the Gods" "The Idea of Pre-Exsistance" "In Cholera Time" "Some Thoughts about Ancestor Worship" "Kimiko"
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- The Principles of Psychology Part One by Herbert Spencer on page 155
- Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays by Thomas H. Huxley on page 239
- Evolution And Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley on page 239
- The Principles of Psychology on page 155
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