Naumann gave a presentation entitled “Japan” at a lecture in which he criticized Japan. There was this one time that he started a public controversy against a German geologist, Dr Edmund Naumann. In his stay in Germany, Ogai sometimes encountered situations where he expressed his patriotism. One of his major accomplishments was his ability to create works using a style of "translation" that he obtained from his experience in European culture. As a matter of trivia, Mori Ōgai is the first Japanese known to have ridden on the Orient Express.
During this time, he also developed an interest in European literature. Mori was sent by the Army to study in Germany ( Leipzig, Dresden, Munich, and Berlin) from 1884 to 1888. He was commissioned as a deputy surgeon (lieutenant) in 1882. The author's oldest and youngest children (Mari and Rui)Īfter graduation, Mori enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army as a medical officer, hoping to specialize in military medicine and hygiene. It was also during this time that he developed an interest in literature, reading extensively from the late-Edo period popular novels, and taking lessons in Chinese poetry and literature.
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In 1874, he was admitted to the government medical school (the predecessor for Tokyo Imperial University's Medical School), and graduated in 1881 at the age of 19, the youngest person ever to be awarded a medical license in Japan. Mori stayed at the residence of Nishi Amane, in order to receive tutoring in German, which was the primary language for medical education at the time.
In 1872, after the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the domains, the Mori family relocated to Tokyo. As the eldest son, it was assumed that he would carry on the family tradition therefore he was sent to attend classes in the Confucian classics at the domain academy, and took private lessons in rangaku and Dutch. His family were hereditary physicians to the daimyō of the Tsuwano Domain. Mori was born as Mori Rintarō ( 森 林太郎) in Tsuwano, Iwami Province (present-day Shimane Prefecture). Mori Ōgai's statue at his birthhouse in Tsuwano
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