SAMURAI
QUARTERS
At the foot of Matsue Castle, favored samurai retainers were allowed to build homes. Several of these compounds are preserved in the city's samurai quarters -- as is the home and museum honoring Matuse's "adopted son", Lafcadio Hearn who taught in the local school system for two years in the late eighteenth century, one of the very first Westerners to live outside the empire's major seaport cities.
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