The Open Mind ofPatrick L afcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn Gathering in Ireland

DublinComing HomeFri 9 Oct, 1.30pm
St. Ann’s Churchadmission: €10 (door charge)

reading &script:

booking: st.anns.music@gmail.com

www.stann.dublin.anglican.org/concerts

Shiro Sano

Waterford

Actor

Sun 11 Oct, 3pm
Garter Lane Arts Centre

admission: freebooking: 051 855038

www.garterlane.ie

music:Well
A Festival of Arts & Wellbeing in Waterford
www.wellwaterford.com

Kyoji
Yamamoto

Guitarist/MusicianGalway

Tue 13 Oct, 6.30pm
Nun’s Island Theatre
storytelling:

Rab Swannock Fulton
Irish music:

lecture:Anders Trabjerg & Mayo Yanachi
admission: €10BonKoizumi

booking: 091 565886

Professor, theUniversity ofShimane; Greatgrandson of Hearn

www.galwayartscentre.ie

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Lafcadio Hearn
Reading Performance
Visitors from the World Beyond
organiser: Sanin Japan-Ireland Association co-organiser: Embassy of Japan in Ireland sponsors &supporters: TOYOKO INN, KINKODO LTD., Matsue City, St. Ann’s Church, Garter Lane Arts Centre,

Nun’s Island Theatre, Embassy of Ireland in Japan, Galway 2020, Galway Arts Centre, Wa Café, The San-inChuo Shimpo Newspaper Co., Ltd. cooperators: Fáilte Ireland/Tourism Ireland, Toshinobu Takashima
calligraphy: Nanami Nanasawa photo: Kyoji Yamamoto design: Kiyoharu Ishikawa©Lafcadio Hearn Reading PerformanceMessage
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to have been given
the opportunity to perform
稀人 Maraudo-Visitors from theWorld Beyond, a show comprising
works by the great Irish writer
Lafcadio Hearn.
We perform through the spoken
word and music, with myself, ShiroSano, in the role of the storyteller,and Kyoji Yamamoto playing theguitar. We have been performing
Hearn’s works regularly over thepast nine years in our hometownof Matsue City, which is known as

The Province of the Gods, and alsoin Tokyo.
In July, 2014, we performed in
Greece, Hearn’s birthplace, on theoccasion of the 110th anniversaryof his death.
Hearn was separated from his
parents at an early age. He felt
much affection for his Greek
mother, but did not think well of
his father, who moved the family
to Ireland before separating fromhis wife and then leaving thecountry. Even so, I think Hearn’ssensitivity was developed throughthe fairytales of Ireland, andCeltic culture, and this is reflected

Program

1. Lafcadio Hearn’s Brother (Atlantic Monthly, January 1923)
2. Hi-mawari (Kwaidan, 1904)
3. My Guardian Angel(The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, 1906)
4. Mujina (Kwaidan, 1904)
5. Chin Chin Kobakama (The Japanese Fairy Tales, 1903)
6. A Living God (Gleaning in Buddha-Fields, 1897)
7. Hi-mawari (Kwaidan, 1904)

in his writings.
Hearn may not have thought
well of his father. However, when
I read Hearn’s works, I feel that insome way he is making an offering
to his father, and trying to come toterms with his relationship withthe parent whom he would notmeet again.
We hope that, through ourperformance, Hearn’s father canappreciate the profound world of
his son.
Our performance is in Japanese,with English subtitles. We hope
you do not find this too much ofa burden. We would like you to
immerse yourself in the sounds ofJapanese, a language Hearn loved,
and the music, which transcends
the boundary between the Eastand the West.
We hope you enjoy our performance!

original text : Lafcadio Hearn

Visitors
from the World
Beyondphoto: Koichi Morishima ©Lafcadio Hearn Reading Performance

Shiro Sano
October, 2015