Great figures who went through “Heartbreak”

Heartbreak

A love ended, or you were turned down. Read the life stories of 2 Japanese historical figures who went through something similar.

Figures who went through this

  • Mori Ogai — The Man Who Wanted to Be Taken Seriously

    A twenty-four-year-old army doctor turned down a dance at a masked ball: "I am a foreigner. I cannot dance." Two and a half years later, a woman followed him from Germany to Japan. The story of a man who got truly angry about how others saw him, and who in the end turned down every title.

  • Nakahara Chuya — The Man He Could Not Hate

    On the day his girlfriend left, he carried her breakable things to the house of the man she was moving in with. He wrote of that man as "my enemy." Twelve years later, he trusted him with his last book of poems. The bitter, hard-to-hate life of a poet who died at thirty.

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