Stories, Plays & Essays
Shibue Chūsai, Volume 2
渋江抽斎
Mori Ōgai · 1916 · translated by Valentin Sarić
The concluding volume of Mori Ōgai’s biography follows the family and associates of Edo physician and scholar Shibue Chūsai into modern Japan.
His widow Io, son Tamotsu, and daughter Kineya Katsuhisa emerge through letters, household memories, careers, and artistic communities.
The supplied continuation of Section Fifty-Five through Section One Hundred Nineteen is translated in full, with explanatory notes and the uncertainties of the original account preserved.
342pages
1916first published
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