By TETSURO KITAMURA/ Staff Writer
August 18, 2022 at 08:00 JST
Natsume Soseki’s wife Kyoko wrote this letter, seen here at the Mori Ogai Memorial Museum in Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 4, to thank Mori Ogai for sending a messenger to ask after Soseki’s health after the latter vomited a large volume of blood and fell into a critical condition at the Shuzenji hot spring resort in 1910. (Tetsuro Kitamura)
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