Mori Ogai 森鷗外
army surgeon · novelist · Shimane, Japan · Tokyo · 1862–1922
A writer who studied four years in Germany as an army surgeon, then came home to work as an army doctor by day and write fiction and translations by night.
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1890 · A night in the port of Saigon, on the voyage home from Germany
The coal has already been loaded. Around the table in the second-class saloon all is very still, and the brightness of the electric lamps is wasted. For tonight the card players who gather here every evening are staying at a hotel, and I alone am left on the ship.
石炭をば早や積み果てつ。中等室の卓のほとりはいと靜にて、熾熱燈の光の晴れがましきも徒なり。今宵は夜毎にこゝに集ひ來る骨牌仲間も「ホテル」に宿りて、舟に殘れるは余一人のみなれば。"The Dancing Girl" (Maihime), the opening
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