# Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series

Author: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8130

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Glimpses+of+Unfamiliar+Japan%3A+First+Series+Hearn&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

'Do not fail to write down your first impressions as soon as possible,' said a kind English professor [Basil Hall Chamberlain: PREPARATOR'S NOTE] whom I had the pleasure of meeting soon after my arrival in Japan: 'they are evanescent, you know; they will never come to you again, once they have faded out; and yet of all the strange sensations you may receive in this country you will feel none so charming as these.' I am trying now to reproduce them from the hasty notes of the time, and find that they were even more fugitive than charming; something has evaporated from all my recollections of them--something impossible to recall. I neglected the friendly advice, in spite of all resolves to...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-8130/chapters/2/index.md)