Along with Natsume Sseki, Mori gai is one of the literary giants of the modern age. Not only did gai help create a new literature for the Japanese people as the country endured the pains attending the birth of the modern nation, but he also expounded...

(1862–1922), Japanese physician and novelist. Intellectual giant and Renaissance man of the Meiji era (1868–1912), Ogai was born Mori Rintaro in Tsuwano (present-day Shimane Prefecture). He excelled in both the arts and sciences as a...

SUICIDAL HONOR: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki. By Doris G. Bargen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. xiv, 289 pp. (B & W photos.) US$42.00, cloth. ISBN0-8248-2998-0. The ritual suicides of General Nogi Maresuke and his...

9780824829988 Suicidal honor; General Nogi and the writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki. Bargen, Doris G. U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2006 289 pages $42.00 Hardcover DS884 General Nogi Maresuki paid a decades-old debt...