Great figures who went through “Growing up poor”

Figures who went through this

• Koizumi Setsu — The Storyteller Who Never Gave Her Name

  "Looking at a book, no good. It must be only your story, your words, your thoughts." That is what a husband said to his wife when she told him old tales with a book in her hand. Most of the stories in Kwaidan, his book of Japanese ghost stories, were told to him by her. Her name is not on the cover.

• Ninomiya Sontoku — The Man Who Won It Back and Let It Go

  "You have no house. You have no fields." His uncle scolded him, and the boy, the story goes, covered his lamp with his robe and kept on reading. The fields he spent seventeen years buying back, he sold off with his own hands. The man known for the statue of a boy carrying firewood, and the life the statue leaves out.