Oki Islands, Sea of Japan
Category Archives: Matsue 松江
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue’s most famous visitor
Lafcadio Hearn was born in Lefkas, Greece. He was the son of an army doctor, Charles Hearn, from Ireland and a Greek woman, Rosa Cassimati. He travelled to Japan in 1890 as a report writer for a magazine. He arrived in Yokohama, but he soon quit this job. After that, he moved to Matsue as an English teacher of Shimane Prefectural Middle School. In Matsue, he met his lifelong friend Nishida Sentaro, a colleague teacher, and he married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a local samurai.
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Matsue 松江 まつえ
Here is a link to a beautifully laid-out information page
about towns on the west coast of Honshu:
Lami Japan 