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Topic: Yakumo, Shimane

	Shimane Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shimane Prefecture (島根県 Shimane-ken) is located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island, Japan.
		The Oki Islands are part of Shimane Prefecture.
		Official Shimane Prefecture homepage (requires a PDF Reader)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shimane_Prefecture (65 words)

	Santa Clara Sister Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The City is situated on an agricultural plain, close to Lake Shinji (known for its migratory swans in winter), with the Hii River in the east and the Kando River in the west, and is adjacent to the Sea of Japan.
		Izumo, mentioned in the "Izumo no Kuni Fudoki" (733 AD) as a "place of outstanding bountiful land and charming people," is the second largest city of Shimane Prefecture (next to Matsue, the prefecture capital), and has prospered since ancient times as the hub of a region rich in ancient history.
		Traditional crafts include Yakumo lacquer, Keyaki woodcraft, pottery, tsutsugaki aizome (indigo dyed cotton), washi (handmade paper), and the hariko no tora (small tigers made of paper used to pray for children to grow up healthy, as well as other characters from astrology).
	www.santaclarasistercities.org /izumo.htm (628 words)

	Bryan In Japan: Saturday, October 30, 2004
		It's the match-maker God and the words Yakumo came from the old song related to when the Gods got married.
		Koizumi Yakumo is extremely famous that you'd actually find his name in the dictionary because he's a famous author.
		His son taught English at Yakumo and it's kinda fate how that came to be.
	bryaninjapan.blogspot.com /2004_10_30_bryaninjapan_archive.html (1036 words)

	[theatre-oz] Recruiting Theatre Groups! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was followed by the 1st Yakumo International Theatre Festival that was staged to great success in 2001.
		Yakumo is a small village of 7000 people located 10 kilometers from Matsue City, the prefectural capital of Shimane.
		Participating theatre groups are asked to do 2 back to back performances, no longer than 50 minutes in the language of their choice but preferably visually based, so as to overcome linguistic and cultural boundaries.
	www.it.net.au /pipermail/theatre-oz/2003-December/007865.html (420 words)

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		Now people cannot swim there as they used to do once and the seafood such as the sea bass and shijimi clam is decreasing.
		Under these circumstances, "YAKUMO SUISHIN" is developed by the way of thinking of supplying the cheap and safe water with IT, and on the other hand, returning it to its former state at a low cost.
		When we started dealing with the company outside Shimane for the first time, we met the serious complaint that problems were found in all 30 sets which we had supplied.
	www.komatsuelec.co.jp /komatsuelec_eng/komatsu_eng/company_profile/comp03/c02president.htm (1709 words)

	Shimane Prefecture @ FootballLiving.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Shinto festival that invites spectators to laugh in the New Year has attracted reservations from more than 20,000 happy visitors only a month after tours to the festival went on sale.
		MATSUE — Lovers of "tamago-kake gohan," or a bowl of rice mixed with raw egg and soy sauce, from across Japan gathered in the city of Unnan in Shimane Prefecture on Sunday and designated Oct 30 as the day of the extremely simple Japanese dish.
		W hen I was growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, the L.A. County Board of Education decided that the children of the city should learn Spanish.
	www.footballliving.com /moreinfo/Shimane_Prefecture (315 words)

	Yakumo, Shimane -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yakumo, Shimane -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Yakumo (八雲村; -mura) is a (A settlement smaller than a town) village located in (additional info and facts about Yatsuka District) Yatsuka District, (additional info and facts about Shimane) Shimane, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		As of 2003, the village has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 6,931 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 123.77 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Y/Ya/Yakumo,_Shimane.htm (99 words)

	SIC infonet　Indian Dance
		YAKUMO Kumano Taisha Setsubunsai- A good luck bean throwing festival especially for people who are ages 12, 24, 36, 48,...
		The Shimanean is a publication of the Shimane International Center.
		This newsletter and much of the Shimane International Center's work is made possible by donations from many companies and organizations including Shimane Prefecture,Chugoku Electric Power Company Inc., Sanin Chuo Shimpo Newspaper Co., Ltd. Sanin Godo Bank, Shimane Denko and Sanin Chuo Television Broadcasting Company Ltd. and various cities,towns and villages in Shimane Prefecture.
	www.sic-info.org /bank/shimanean/98winter/what.htm (1428 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/Archives/Previous Events/Lafcadio Hearn Exhibit 1997-pg.1
		Lafcadio Hearn (Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, 1850-1904) author, translator, educator is known for his excellent English prose.
		Chamberlain helped Hearn secure a position teaching English at Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, where he fell in love with a Japan that was rapidly passing into history.
		This traveling exhibition of some fifty first printed issues, unpublished photos, along with reproductions of the author's original manuscripts commemorates the centennial of Koizumi Yakumo's naturalization as a Japanese.
	www.sec.state.la.us /archives/hearn/hearn-1.htm (454 words)

	The Charlock's Shade: Yakumo Koizumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese, taking the name Yakumo Koizumi.
		In 1889 he decided to go to Japan, and upon his arrival in Yokohama in the spring of 1890, was befriended by Basil Hall Chamberlain of Tokyo Imperial University, and officials at the Ministry of Education.
		At their encouragement, in the summer of 1890 he moved to Matsue, to teach English at Shimane Prefectural Common Middle School and Normal School.
	thecharlocksshade.typepad.com /the_charlocks_shade/2004/03/yakumo_koizumi.html (1353 words)

	Topology News - 2 Nov 2001
		From Okayama to Matsue by "Yakumo" or "Super-Yakumo" (2.5 hours) The price of the train ticket (one way) from Narita Airport to Matsue is about 22,000 Japanese yen.
		From Okayama to Matsue by "Yakumo" or "Super-Yakumo" (2.5 hours) The price of the train ticket (one way) from Kansai Airport to Matsue is about 13,000 Japanese yen.
		Near historic Matsue Castle in the center of the city, is a Buke-Yashiki (=Samurai house) and the Lafcadio Hearn Museum.
	at.yorku.ca /i/a/a/i/75.htm (1696 words)

	Lafcadio Hearn -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		capital, Shimane Prefecture (ken), southwestern Honshu, Japan, on Shinji-ko (Lake Shinji) and the Tenjin-gawa (Tenjin River), near the Sea of Japan.
		The interior is composed chiefly of a volcanic mountain chain, and the coast is dotted with numerous associated hot springs.
		In the north, the Shimane Peninsula encloses Lake Shinji, a popular resort area.
	cache.britannica.com /eb/article-9039712 (437 words)

	Altoona Community Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yakumo is a mountain village of 7,000 people in Japan’s Shimane Prefecture.
		ACT is hoping to finance the venture largely with specialized funds from governmental, foundation and other sources which would not be available to the group for anything else.
		However, because they are familiar with the Yakumo festival and feel it is a prestigious event, they decided to make an exception and provide ACT with $2,000.”
	www.westol.com /atheatre/sjc_press.htm (822 words)

	Letter points to Hearn's estrangement with Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was discovered by Ikuo Tsunematsu, a Japanese expert on Anglo-Japanese cultural history, who found it among a sheaf of old documents kept by Diosy's relatives.
		Born in 1850 of Irish-Greek parentage, Hearn arrived in Japan in 1890 and quickly fell in love with the country and its people by virtue of a teaching stint in the provincial town of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, where he married the daughter of a local samurai.
		Taking the name Yakumo Koizumi upon assuming citizenship in 1896, Hearn produced several works, including, "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" and "Out of the East," which portrayed in time-capsule fashion to the West the romantic and mystical traditions of a rapidly modernizing Japan.
	www.trussel.com /hearn/letter.htm (566 words)

	Altoona Community Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We were encouraged to apply to Japan’s prestigious Yakumo International Theatre Festival...
		Yakumo is a mountainous village of 7,000 in Japan’s Shimane Prefecture.
		While in Yakumo, participants reside with host families and present two back-to-back 50-minute performances in the intimate Shiinomi Theatre.
	www.westol.com /atheatre/sjc.htm (376 words)

	Japan Times: Foreign writer who defined Japan has been carved into stone in Matsue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During his time in Japan, Hearn lived in various places, but the one city that is most closely identified with him is Matsue.
		Hearn fell in love with this city in Shimane Prefecture.
		Those waterways may chug with the little flotillas of tourist boats, but kingfishers and herons fly above those waters, and the whole area of the castle and its grounds gives Matsue a green historical core that any city would be happy to possess.
	search.japantimes.co.jp /print/features/travel2005/fv20050722a1.htm (961 words)

	W Pinch Summaries Parts 11-15
		When he first met Arisa again, he was surprised at how different she was, but since he didn't think she would remember him anyways, he didn't say anything.
		The teacher announces that the school trip(not the year-end one)'s destination has been decided by the principal throwing darts at a map ^_^, and this year it's...Shimane-ken! Arisa, Akina, and Inogami are stunned into silence, but the rest of the class cries out in protest.
		Momo asks what food Shimane is known for, and Akina admits that it's corbicula(seems like it's a boring vegetable or something).
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/literary/518/doublesum3.html (6786 words)

	2nd Yakumo International Theatre Festival
		The Yakumo International Theatre Festival (YITF) will be held as a joint initiative between the residents of Yakumo Village, Theatre Group Ashibue and the Yakumo Village Administration.
		The focus of this festival is on international amateur theatre.
		For information about other events taking place at the "The Yakumo International Theatre Festival" please refer to the official website.
	www.arts.australia.or.jp /english/events/0410/yakumo (167 words)

	Kyodo World News Service: Matsue prepares for Lafcadio Hearn's centennial+@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The city of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, which is often associated with novelist Lafcadio Hearn, is planning a number of events as the centennial of the author's death approaches in September.
		Known in Japan as Koizumi Yakumo, the Greece-born Hearn (1850-1904) spent his childhood in Ireland and other places.
		In 1890, he spent 15 months in Matsue, where he became an English teacher and married the daughter of a high-ranking samurai of the Matsue clan, Setsu.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:91810384&refid=holomed_1 (206 words)

	Lafcadio Hearn
		There he spent the rest of his life, writing what is considered his best work.
		He married a Japanese woman, taught in Japanese universities, and became a Japanese citizen in 1895, taking the name Yakumo Koizumi.
		142,956), capital of Shimane prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, a port on the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0823112.html (164 words)

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		But fortunately he could receive support from Basil Hall Chamberlain of Tokyo Imperial University and officials of the Ministry of Education, he moved to Matsue in Shimane located in the western end of Japan to teach English at a junior high school.
		In 1886, he changed his name Yakumo Koizumi after the permission of naturalization.
		It's said that his family name Koizumi was given from Setsu's relative and Yakumo was taken from the first part of Japanese poem in Kojiki, "Yakumo tatsu Izumo Yaegaki..."
	www.jpn-miyabi.com /Vol.37/hearn.html (587 words)

	Worldisround - Matsue, Lafcadio Hearn & Izumu Taisha - Sightseeing in Shimane photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sightseeing in Shimane - travel photos - Matsue capital of Shimane Prefecture, western Honshû, on Lake Shinji.
		Matsue capital of Shimane Prefecture, western Honshû, on Lake Shinji.
		A castle town during the Edo period (1600-1868), Matsue famous places are Fudoki no Oka Park, the temple Kokubunji, Matsue Castle, the temple Gesshôji, Kanden'an, an 18th-century tea house, the Koizumi Yakumo Kinenkan and a museum in honor of Lafcadio Hearn, who lived in Matsue.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/123937 (151 words)

	Preoccupations: Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
		Settling in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Hearn was struck by the simple dignity of a country not yet blighted by industrialization, and he put these feelings into books that won him a role as Japan's foremost Western chronicler.
		In 1891, Hearn married a samurai's daughter and changed his name to Yakumo Koizumi, going on to work as a professor of English at Tokyo University.
		He became a Japanese citizen in 1896 and fathered four children before his death of a heart attack in Tokyo at age 54.
	www.preoccupations.org /2004/03/lafcadio_hearn_.html (260 words)

	Kimachi Ishi
		This is an absolutely beautiful area of Japan with a long history.
		The former residence of Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) is also located here, just across from the beautifully preserved castle.
		The city itself is laced with canals connected to the lake which undoubtedly served as an important means of transporting goods in the old days.
	www.geocities.com /chris_haan/kimachi (710 words)

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		A Japanese translation has been completed (Michibata de Deatta Nihon); part of this translation was selected as a finalist for the 1995 Koizumi Yakumo Cultural Prize.
		I have also served or am serving on approximately 20 other committees, including ten doctoral committees since 1990 and directed undergraduate honors theses.
		Shimane (National) University, Matsue, Japan (1982-83) Basic English Conversation, Phonetics, Advanced Composition, American Literature Surveys, American Indian Literatures (the first course of this type taught in Japan), Faculty Seminars on English and Orientation to American Universities.
	www.uta.edu /academy/vita/roemer/roemer_vita.doc (1199 words)

	Lafcadio Coffee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Our aim in undertaking this reproduction was to pay tribute to the master writer for his love of Matsue, but also to compliment our customers with the Meiji romance in modern time.
		To find out the most likely coffee Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) might have drank while in Matsue, our company spent years of investigation in collaboration with Hearn's great-grandson, Mr.
		Born in Greece and educated in Britain and France, Hearn came to Japan in 1890 and was assigned to teach in Shimane Prefecture.
	www.nippon-tea.co.jp /cofeng.htm (249 words)

	Billboard Bulletins - Recruiting Theatre Groups! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is a great pleasure to announce that from November 3 to November 7, 2004, The 2nd Yakumo
		International Theatre Festival will be held in Yakumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
		Yakumo is a small village of 7000 people located 10 kilometers from Matsue City, the prefectural
	www.theatre.asn.au /read.php?f=18&i=3084&t=3084 (370 words)

	Lafcadio Hearn
		The Lafcadio Hearn/Koizumi Yakumo International Center is sponsoring activities during the week of September 12-18 to commemorate the centennial of the death of Lafcadio Hearn.
		Koizumi Yakumo page (in Japanese), from Kumamoto Bungaku Sanpo [Kumamoto Literary Stroll], including Hearn's The Future of the Far East from Momoi Yuichi-sensei, in Japanese and English.
		Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Matsue City, Shimane, Japan.
	www.trussel.com /f_hearn.htm (4512 words)

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