A Study Guide for Mori Ogai's "Under Reconstruction"
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Under Reconstruction
Mori Ōgai
1910
Introduction
One of the first modern Japanese stories, Under Reconstruction,
by Mori Ōgai, was first published in 1910 as Fushinchu.
Written by a well-traveled army doctor about his home country at a time of great change in Japan's history, Under Reconstruction
perfectly captures the uneasy transition of an ancient, secluded nation into modern times. Today, inarguably, Japan is an influential world power at the frontier of technological development and with many important cultural exports. But as recently as 1867, Japanese borders had just opened up to outside and particularly Western influence, as a result of the downfall of the feudal system and a new emperor who admired European forms of government. Under Reconstruction
alludes to this larger national narrative through a small personal crisis between a Japanese government official, Watanabe, and his former lover, a German singer on tour. They meet in a restaurant undergoing reconstruction. Half reflecting traditional Japanese aesthetics, half attempting westernized decor, the restaurant, like both Watanabe and Japan, is making an awkward effort to bridge the gulf between traditions and modernity. Under Reconstruction
can be found in Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology (1962), edited by Ivan Morris, as well as Ōgai's Youth and Other Stories (1994).
Author Biography
Mori Ōgai was born Mori Rintaro on February 17, 1862, in Tsuwano, Japan. The eldest son in a family of doctors who had served the feudal lord for over ten generations, Ōgai was raised in the setting and value system of the samurai, and indeed his family, as personal doctors to the lord of the Tsuwano domain, held a separate but comparable position of honor alongside the samurai