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3 unusual facts about Mori Ōgai


Richard Bowring

1979 Mori Ōgai and the Modernization of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press)

Sakai incident

This incident was dramatised in a famous short story, Sakai Jiken, by Mori Ōgai.

Seirogan

The higher echelons of the Army Medical Corps, including writer Mori Ōgai, favored the German view that beriberi, a disease that caused an even heavier death toll than typhoid, was caused by an undiscovered transmittable pathogens (in contrast, British-trained doctors in the navy correctly saw it as a nutritional disorder).



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