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In March 1902, Hearn was dismissed from the faculty of the Imperial University* Hearn’s explanation was that, as a naturalized Japanese, he was expected to accept a salary insufficient to his Western needs ; but the fact that for six years after his naturalization he had been retained at a salary greater than that paid to most of the other foreign professors at the University is clear evid ence against this claim. The official reason ap1. Life and Letters. Vol. II. p. 284. 2. Hakucho Masamune.
Perhaps I was right in one way. For that moment Japan was really for me what I thought it. ’’ 12 1. 2. Ibid. Bisland: Japanese Letters, p. 7. (A p r il11,1890)^ p. 313. (May 2 5 ,1894). 33 So he wrote to Professor Chamberlain in a de jected mood in May 1894. And in a letter to Mr. W. B* Mason he said : “ Professor Chamberlain spoke to me about the variability o f one's feelings toward Japan being like the oscillation of a pendulum : one day swinging toward pessimism and the next to optimism.
Bisland： Japanese Letters, p. 412. (August 6,1892). 2. Ibid. p. 225. (January 12,1894). I. 117. 34 Matsue has become a Mecca for all devotees of Hearn since his delightful descriptions idealized it as an unspoiled corner o f Old Japan. A charm ing description o f a pilgrimage to H e a r ts first home in Japan has been given to us by Mr, John Eills of Tokyo, in his volume o f essays and poems Safe Thoughts for Skittish Times ; one particularly likes the parting inscription Mr. n This is undoubtedly the prayer we all would wish to pray* But soon the idyll of Izumo ended.