Kokoro : Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (Illustrated)

This book is an illustrated version of the original Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn. The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan,—for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). Written with the above character, this word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner meaning,—just as we say in English, "the heart of things."