Koizumi Setsu: Lafcadio Hearn’s Wife and Creative Partner

A commemorative photograph of Hearn and Setsu with their oldest son Kazuo, celebrating Shichi-Go-San around 1896. (© Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum)

Setsu’s English notebook shows her study efforts. (© Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum)

Other pages in Setsu’s notebook show her putting words together into sentences. (© Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum)

Setsu (left) with her adoptive mother Tomi. (© The Koizumi family)