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Lieutenant-General Mori Rintarō (森 林太郎, February 17, 1862 – July 8, 1922), known by his pen name Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori.
Mori Ōgai (born February 17, 1862, Tsuwano, Japan—died July 9, 1922, Tokyo) was one of the creators of modern Japanese literature. The son of a physician of the aristocratic warrior (samurai) class, Mori Ōgai studied medicine, at first in Tokyo and from 1884 to 1888 in Germany.
Jul 8, 2022 · Mori Ōgai created new possibilities for Japanese literature with his fiction, translations, and other writings, while also rising to the highest level in his...
Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外 / 森 鴎外) (February 17, 1862 – July 8, 1922) was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. Mori's real name was Rintarō (林太郎). Ōgai is correctly written 鷗外 but 鴎外 is often used in its place.
Mori Ōgai. Mori Ōgai was born in Tsuwano in 1862. He descended from a family of doctors and it was naturally assumed he would follow in the family tradition. After the Meiji Restoration, the family moved to Tokyo where Ōgai studied German, the language in which medicine was generally taught.
Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo is the place where MORI Ogai, a Meiji literary legend, spent the latter half of his lifetime. Ogai lived in his residence at Sendagi, Bunkyo Ward with his family since 1892 at the age of 30 until he died at the age of 60.
The Ōgai Portal explores the intellectual biography of the medical doctor, translator and writer Mori Rintarō (1862-1922) who became known by his pen name Ōgai.
Mori Rintarō, alias Ōgai (1862-1922) These pages explore Ōgaiʼs intellectual biography against the background of contemporary Japanese and global history. They provide insights into his multifaceted work – crossing the boundaries between geographical regions and fields of knowledge – as medical scholar, military surgeon, translator of ...
Literary man and army surgeon. Born in Shimane, the son of a doctor serving in the Tsuwano Clan. After graduating from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine in 1881, he became an army surgeon.
Mori ōgai served as a surgeon in the Japanese Imperial Army, and was a translator, novelist, dramatist, and literary theorist during the Meiji and Taisho periods. While a dramatist in his own right, he is also important for his translations (especially of Ibsen) and his critical writings.
