The Boy Who Drew Cats
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"The Boy Who Drew Cats" is a Japanese fairy tale translated by Lafcadio Hearn, published in 1898, as number 23 of Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. It was later included in Hearn's Japan
The boy draws cats on a byōbu screen at the haunted temple.—Hearn tr., (1898). Illustrated by Kason.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western w
The Boy Who Drew Cats
…The Boy Who Drew Cats" (Japanese: 猫を描いた少年, Hepburn: Neko wo egaita shōnen) is a Japanese fairy tale translated by Lafcadio Hearn, published in 1898, as number 23 of Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. It was later included in Hearn's Japanese Fairy Tales. The original…
Hearn in 1889
Plaque on Hearn's home on Gardiner Street, Dublin
The first issue of Ye Giglampz, a satirical weekly published in 1874 by Hearn and Henry Farny
Char-Coal: Cartoon published in New Orleans Daily Item on 25 August 1880