Great figures who went through “Gave up a dream”

Gave up a dream

You had to let go of what you were aiming for. Read the life stories of 2 Japanese historical figures who went through something similar.

Figures who went through this

  • Kitasato Shibasaburo — The Man Who Wouldn't Listen

    "Being a doctor or a monk is no work for a grown man with arms and legs." That, it is said, was how a young man felt when he entered a medical school only as a trick. Later he snapped at his bosses, cut down his own teacher's theory, and quit with all his staff when his institute was moved to a government office. What was the one piece of advice this man who never listened finally kept?

  • Takamura Chieko — The Woman Who Could Not Show Her Work

    "There is no sky in Tokyo," she sighed. As a young woman she would hardly bring her paintings even to the man who would become her husband, and after one rejection she stopped entering exhibitions. On her last day, that same woman put into her husband's hands the paper pictures she had gathered together herself.

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