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

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

Minokichi soon felt charmed by this strange girl; and the more that he looked at her, the handsomer she appeared to be.