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"OUT OF THE EAST"

REVERIES AND STUDIES IN NEW JAPAN

LAFCADIO HEARN

AUTHOR OF "GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN"

"As far as the east is from the west--"

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1895




TO

NISHIDA SENTARŌ

IN DEAR REMEMBRANCE OF

IZUMO DAYS



CONTENTS

    I. The Dream of a Summer Day
   II. With Kyūshū Students
  III. At Hakata
   IV. Of the Eternal Feminine
    V. Bits of Life and Death
   VI. The Stone Buddha
  VII. Jiujutsu
 VIII.