Mori Ogai (1862-1922) Though not well known in the West, Mori Rintaro(*) is placed by experts here and in Japan at the apex of Meiji era (1868-1912) literature alongside his slightly younger contemporary, Natsume Soseki, and was deeply admired by writers as widely different as Nagai Kafu, Lu Xun...
I admire the ambition in this project and was very excited when I started reading this book, because if the authors had proved what they set out to--namely that Asian philosophy and religion became a central influence to American art of all forms--it would have been tres awesome. Unfortunately, I d...