Figures of a Changing Age

Three portraits from the memory of Uchida Roan. Awashima Chingaku was a painter of Edo and Meiji who mixed East and West. Shimada Jonan was a statesman and Christian of famed integrity, seen here with unusual candor. Osugi Sakae was the anarchist whom Roan, no ally, recalled in the weeks before his death in 1923.

A New English Translation by Valentin Sarić. AI-assisted translation.