Lafcadio Hearn Quote

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?"

Letter to Ernest Fenollosa, August 1891, cited from Elizabeth Bisland (ed.) Life and Letters (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922) vol. 2, p. 160.

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?