Since his family did not approve of the marriage, and because he was worried that his relationship might harm his career prospects, Charles did not inform his superiors of his son or pregnant wife and left his family behind. Hearn's father Charles was promoted to Staff Surgeon Second Class and in 1850 was reassigned from Lefkada to the British West Indies. Plaque on Hearn's home on Gardiner Street, Dublin 11 Emigration to Ireland and abandonment George died on 17 August 1850, two months after Lafcadio's birth. Hearn's parents were married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on 25 November 1849, several months after his mother had given birth to Hearn's older brother, George Robert Hearn, on 24 July 1849. He was baptized Patrikios Lefcadios Hearn ( Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν) in the Greek Orthodox Church, but he seems to have been called "Patrick Lefcadio Kassimati Charles Hearn" in English and, the middle name "Lafcadio" was given to him in honour of the island where he was born. Throughout his life, Lafcadio boasted of his Greek blood and had a passionate leaning towards Greece. 3 His mother was a Greek named Rosa Cassimati and she was a native of the Greek island of Kythira, while his father was a British Army officer of Irish, or mixed Anglo-Irish descent, who was stationed in Lefkada during the British protectorate of the United States of the Ionian Islands. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada on 27 June 1850, : p. His writings about Japan offered the Western world greater insight into a culture that was still unfamiliar to it at the time. In Japan, Hearn married Setsuko Koizumi with whom he had four children. From there, he was sent as a correspondent to the French West Indies, where he stayed for two years, and then to Japan, where he would remain for the rest of his life. At the age of 19, he emigrated to the United States, where he found work as a newspaper reporter, first in Cincinnati and later in New Orleans.
Hearn was born on the Greek island of Lefkada, after which a complex series of conflicts and events led to his being moved to Dublin, where he was abandoned first by his mother, then his father, and finally by his father's aunt (who had been appointed his official guardian). His writings about New Orleans, based on his decade-long stay there, are also well-known. Before moving to Japan and becoming a Japanese citizen, he worked as a journalist in the United States, primarily in Cincinnati and New Orleans. His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Koizumi Yakumo ( 小泉 八雲, 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn ( / h ɜːr n/ Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, romanized: Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn), was a Greek- Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West.
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