Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (first series) is a book written by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakomo, in 1894. It is a collection of impressionistic travel sketches, reporting on Hearn's first travels in Japan between years 1890 and 1893. It is also the first works on Japanese culture Hearn published. After that, he released one book every year until The Romance of the Milky Way and other studies and stories (1905), published one year after his death in Tokyo, 1904. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan were originally published in English, but was later translated into several other languages such as Japanese and Polish. The original version book is divided in two volumes, containing seven and eight chapters respectively (fifteen in total). However, a following edition was published in one volume in 1907 by Bernard Tauchnitz. This edition contains only twelve chapters.