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Mori Ōgai
Lieutenant-General Mori Rintarō , known by his pen name Mori Ōgai , was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori. He obtained his medical license at a very young age and introduced translated German language literary works to the Japanese public. Mori Ōgai also was considered the first to successfully express the art of western poetry…
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science · Japanese writer (1862–1922) · linguist · poet · novelist · translator · physician · physician writer · playwright · military personnel · literary critic · writer · also Mori Ōgai, Mori Ougai, Ōgai Mori, Ogai Mori, Ougai Mori, Mori Ogai
Born 17 February 1862 · Died 8 July 1922 · Q356960
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2026· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Mori Ōgai to Harada Naojirō : Myunhen ni mebaeta yūjō no yukue / Niizeki Kimiko
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2022· 1 entry
Nippon: Mori Ōgai: The Polymath Intellectual Who Made Literary History
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1954· 1 entry
On the 33rd anniversary of his death, the town of Tsuwano bought it and restored it to its original site
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1922· 1 entry
Died 1922-07-08.
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1919· 1 entry
The council conducted its first experiments on vitamins; this was 35 years after Takaki's experimentation in the Navy and six years after Edward Bright Vedder convinced the Western scientific community that rice bran cou
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1914· 1 entry
His style changed from "history as it is," in which he depicted history as it had been narrated, to "story based on history," in which he somehow added his own arrangements to historical events
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1910· 1 entry
Where socialists and anarchists were unfairly executed by the court on suspicion of the assassination of the Japanese Emperor Meiji
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1909· 2 entries
Released his novel Vita Sexualis, which was abruptly banned a month later
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With the help of others such as Yosano Akiko and Yosano Tekkan
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1908· 1 entry
The Diet of Japan appointed Mori as the head of the Beriberi Research Council to investigate the causes of the disease
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1907· 1 entry
Mori was promoted to Surgeon General of the Army (lieutenant general), the highest post within the Japanese Army Medical Corps, and became head of the Imperial Fine Arts Academy, which is now the Japan Art Academy
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1906· 1 entry
Won award: Second Class (April 1906).
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1904· 1 entry
Won award: Third Class (November 1904).
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1896· 1 entry
Won award: Fifth Class (November 1896).
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1895· 2 entries
Won award: Sixth Class (September 1895).
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Won award: Fourth Class (September 1895).
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1894· 1 entry
Won award: Sixth Class (November 1894).
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1889· 1 entry
And had a son who was born in 1890, Oto (from German Otto), before divorcing later that same year
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1888· 2 entries
By the then minister of foreign affair, Inoue Kaoru for the diplomatic purpose
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Was promoted to senior surgeon, second class (lieutenant colonel) in October 1889
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1884· 1 entry
Naval surgeon Takaki Kanehiro concluded his experiments showing that the disease was a thiamine deficiency caused by sailors' diet of polished white rice; this advice had been adopted by the Japanese Navy by the time of
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1881· 1 entry
Tokyo and was filmed by Shirō Toyoda in 1953 as The Mistress
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1874· 1 entry
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
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1872· 1 entry
After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the domains, the Mori family relocated to Tokyo
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-02-17.
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