This author wrote a story in which the German dancer Elise goes mad after the foreign lover who impregnated her is pressured to move back to his home country.
This author wrote a story in which the German dancer Elise goes mad after the foreign lover who impregnated her is pressured to move back to his home country. In another of this author's stories, Kisuke tells a policeman how his brother begged him to kill him out of mercy while being sent into exile on a riverboat used to transport criminals. This author of "The Dancing Girl" and "The Boat on the Takase River" fictionalized his sexual coming of age in the novel Vita Sexualis, and was the first person to translate Goethe's Faust into (*) Japanese. Kenji Mizoguchi directed an adaptation of a historical short story by this author about two children sold into slavery on an estate run by the title character. He wrote a novel in which Otama agrees to become a mistress to the wealthy moneylender Suezo in order to provide for her poor family; that novel's title comes from a scene in which her love interest Okada throws a rock, accidentally killing one of the title birds. For 10 points, name this late Meiji-era Japanese author of "Sansho the Bailiff" and The Wild Geese.
This author wrote a story in which the German dancer Elise goes mad after the foreign lover who impregnated her is pressured to move back to his home country.
Mori Ōgai [accept in either order; also accept Mori Rintano, his birth name]