7-667: The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum ( 小泉八雲記念館 , Koizumi Yakumo Kinenkan ) is a writer's house museum established in Matsue , Shimane Prefecture , Japan in 1933. The original museum was modeled on the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar , and its collection was based on 22 manuscripts donated by the Koizumi family through the efforts of his disciples Teizaburo Ochiai and Seiichi Kishi. Another 350 books were donated by
14-479: A tiled roof, approximately 15.5 meters in width and 10 meters in depth, and was built during the Kyōhō era (1716-1735) as a residence for a samurai family with a stipend of less than 500 koku . The owner, Negishi Tate, was the district officer of Hikawa District, Shimane , and Hearn was renting this house while he was away. He mainly used the three rooms on the left side, which overlooked the garden on three sides. Despite
21-536: A year. The museum is adjacent to the house in Kitahori-cho, Matsue where Hearn lived as newlyweds with his wife, Setsu, from May 1891 until he was transferred to Kumamoto's Daigo Junior High School in November of the same year. The location is in a corner of Shiomi Nawate, where samurai residences line the moat of Matsue Castle and the atmosphere of the old castle town remains. It is a one-story house with
28-477: The authors through their visits. Sites include a range of activities common to cultural heritage sites, such as living history , museum exhibits , guided tours and poetry readings . New York Times commentator Anne Trubek counted 73 such houses in the United States. The tradition of preserving houses or sites important to famous authors has a long history: in the 14th century Petrarch's birthplace
35-408: The commemorative society. The current facility was renovated into a more traditional Japanese style . The collection now consists of approximately 1,500 items, including Hearn's personal belongings, his books, related books and materials, and items left behind by his wife Setsu. Since 2016, Hearn's great-grandson, Bon Koizumi, has been appointed as director. The museum attracts around 150,000 visitors
42-400: The homes are those of famous literary figures . Frequently these buildings are preserved to communicate to visitors more about the author than their work and its historical context. These exhibits are a form of biographical criticism . Visitors of the sites who are participating in literary tourism , are often fans of the authors, and these fans find deep emotional and physical connections to
49-736: The relatively short stay in this residence, he was deeply nostalgic for this house, and wrote about it is several of his works, notably in Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan . The house was designated a National Historic Site in 1940. This article related to a museum in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Writer%27s house museum Writers' homes (sometimes writer's , author's or literary houses ) are locations where writers lived. Frequently, these homes are preserved as historic house museums and literary tourism destinations, called writer's home museums , especially when
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