A museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, kicked off a yearlong exhibition Sunday to follow the footsteps of naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Yakumo Koizumi, through photographs.
Born to an Irish father and Greek mother in 1850, Hearn arrived in Japan in 1890 and married a Japanese woman in Matsue, where he lived for a while. He introduced Japan's traditional culture to the world before passing away in 1904 at the age of 54.
The exhibition at the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum presents modern photos of scenes depicted by Hearn in his 1894 travelogue "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," taken by Toshinobu Takashima, a photographer from Shimane Prefecture.