Lafcadio Hearn 
Japanese Miscellany 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Your Izumo, – the Country of the Eight Cloud Rising, it is very distant. Perhaps it will therefore be difficult for you to promise to return here upon any particular day. But, if we were to know the exact day, we should feel hap pier. We could then prepare a feast of welcome’