The Japanese letters of Lafcadio Hearn Author:Lafcadio Hearn Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX Accent, ia connection with rhyme. 208, 209. Ainu, the religion of, 25. Akasaka, 328. Akizuki of Aidzu, Professor of Chi- nese, birthday... more » festival of, 73, 88, 89; a visit from, 258; a type of the ideal old Samurai, 315. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. 165,391, 395. 396. Amamura, Japanese village, 416. Amenomori, Nobushige, 384. American, magazines, 34; physiog- nomy, 46. Amiel, Henri Frederic, 72. Anarchists, 372. Ancestral, memories, inheritance of, 213; tendencies, influence of, 221, 222; tendencies, genius explained by. 256; ghosts, 267. Andersen, Hans Christian, 201. Anderson, William, 156. Animals, souls of, 338, 429-431. Anstey, V., pseud. See Guthrie. Archery, Japanese, 304, 305, 337,339. Architecture, Gothic, Hearn on, xxvii; Gothic and Greek. 24; in Italy, 160; at open ports, 402. Arnold, Sir Edwin, 110; his Japanese drama, 422; address of, to the La- dies' Educational Association, 424. Arnold, Matthew, his criticism of Wordsworth, 218. Arrows of prayers, 13. Art, Japanese, snow in. 56; idealism in, 109,110; Japanese, old and new, 118. 119; Eastern and Western, some peculiarities in, explained by sexual idea, 122; Japanese, con- ' trast presented in, 217; Japanese and Greek, anatomy plays no part in, 228, 229; of the Latins, as illus- trated by Lpti. 393. Artist, the, his duty to extract the gold from the ore, xlvii. Artistic sensitiveness conjoined with ferocity. 289-291. Asakichi, Yasukochi, student. 310, 315-318, 326. Aston. William George, 358. Atheists, 330. Atlantic Monthly, editor of, condemns use of Japanese words, 105; a criti- cism in, 160; articles in, 293, 330; the pay given by, ...« less