English summary: Mori Rintaro, or Mori Ogai, known in his country as, bungo, Foremost in literary-academic education, and outside Japan mostly for his Berlin novella The Dancing Girl, offers us a way to understand the culture of Japan. Ogai was b... Read more

English summary: Mori Rintaro, or Mori Ogai, known in his country as, bungo, Foremost in literary-academic education, and outside Japan mostly for his Berlin novella The Dancing Girl, offers us a way to understand the culture of Japan. Ogai was born in 1862 and died in 1922 and was from 1881 to 1916 a doctor in the service of the Imperial Department of the Army and in 1907 as Surgeon General of the Army; in 1917 he was the General Director of the Imperial Library and Museum and in 1919 President of the Imperial Academy of the Arts. This volume marks the 150th anniversary of Ogai's birth and offers contributions in the fields of language, literature, translation, the reception of Ogai's works, intellectual history and philosophy, inter-cultural experiences, gender studies and film. The authors are Kayo Adachi-Rabe (Berlin), Doris Bargen (Amherst), Nora Bartels (Heidelberg), Richard Bowring (Cambridge), Eduard Klopfenstein (Zurich), Kono Shion (Tokyo), Klaus Kracht (Berlin), Emmanuel Lozerand (Paris), Michiko Mae (Dusseldorf), Mishima Ken'ichi (Tokyo), Nagashima Yoichi (Copenhagen), Heike Patzschke (Cologne), Peter Portner (Munich), Sasaki Yukitsuna (Tokyo), Takahashi Teruaki (Tokyo) und John Timothy Wixted (Harbert, Michigan). German description: Mori Rintaro - Ogai, Mowenfern -, in seinem Land als bungo, als Grosser [auf dem Gebiet] literarisch-akademischer Bildung gegenwartig, im Ausland vor allem durch seine Berliner Novelle Die Tanzerin bekannt, weist einen der Wege zum Verstandnis der Kultur Japans. Der 1862 geborene und 1922 verstorbene Autor war von 1881 bis 1916 Arzt in den Diensten des Kaiserlichen Heeresministeriums, 1907 als Generaloberstabarzt des Heeres; 1917 war er Generaldirektor der Kaiserlichen Bibliotheken und Museen, 1919 Prasident der Reichsakademie der Kunste. Zu Ogais 150. Geburtstag vereint der Band Beitrage auf den Gebieten Sprache, Literatur, Ubersetzung, Ogai-Rezeption, Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie, interkulturelle Erfahrung, Gender-Studien und Film. Die Autoren sind Kayo Adachi-Rabe (Berlin), Doris Bargen (Amherst), Nora Bartels (Heidelberg), Richard Bowring (Cambridge), Eduard Klopfenstein (Zurich), Kono Shion (Tokyo), Klaus Kracht (Berlin), Emmanuel Lozerand (Paris), Michiko Mae (Dusseldorf), Mishima Ken'ichi (Tokyo), Nagashima Yoichi (Kopenhagen), Heike Patzschke (Koln), Peter Portner (Munchen), Sasaki Yukitsuna (Tokyo), Takahashi Teruaki (Tokyo) und John Timothy Wixted (Harbert, Michigan). Less