Koizumi Setsuko[1] (Japanese: 小泉 節子、26 February 1868 - 18 February 1932), also known as Koizumi Setsu[2] (Japanese: 小泉 セツ) is the wife of Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo). She helped Lafcadio in writing, and is author of Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (Japanese: 思い出の記).[3] Her official name in koseki (Japanese legal family resister) is "Koizumi Setsu", but she preferred to use "Koizumi Setsuko" as her name[4]。
Born as a daughter of the Koizumi family, whose members had served the domain of Matsue feudal clan in Izumo, at the age of 22 she married Hearn, who lived in Matsue as an English teacher. Since she liked stories from childhood, she helped her husband to understand Japanese folk tales and supported his writing about Japan.[5]
- ^ Evangelista, Stefano (2023-08-01). ""Clothed with Poetry": Lafcadio Hearn's Decadent Aesthetics of Translation". Modern Philology. 121 (1): 104–123, p. 112. doi:10.1086/725415. ISSN 0026-8232.
- ^ Makino, Yoko (2023), Saeki, Shōichi; Haga, Tōru (eds.), "Lafcadio Hearn Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894)", Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors: From Goncharov to Pinguet, Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 55–60, doi:10.1007/978-981-19-9853-9_11, ISBN 978-981-19-9853-9, retrieved 2024-09-04
- ^ 小泉節子. "思い出の記". www.aozora.gr.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- ^ 長谷川洋二、p.13。
- ^ 長谷川洋二、pp.42-43。