Lafcadio Hearn

LAFCADIO HEARN is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan. Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese, taking the name Yakumo Koizumi

He spoke to her; and she responded in a soft, clear voice of which the sweetness saddened him with a sadness of other days.

and he saw that she was very beautiful, — though her eyes made him afraid.