The Historical Fiction of Mori О̄gai
Edited by David A. Dilworth and J. Thomas Rimer
University of Hawaii Press
The fiction of Mori Ogai, written after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, secured his promiment place in modern Japanese literature. This collection of stories, set in the Tokugawa Period, provide a means for Ogai to deal with contemporary moral and philosophical values and themes.
