Sancho Dayu

Name: Sancho Dayu
Author: Ogai Mori

by Ogai Mori

Historical narrative about conflicting personal and political loyalties in Japan

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Ogai Mori

Military surgeon, novelist, and translator who introduced German Romanticism to Japan. His historical fiction and early autobiographical novels reflect the tensions between tradition and modernity in Meiji Japan.

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