秋草　・　島崎藤村

秋草　（Akigusa）By　島崎藤村（Shimazaki Touson) Shimazaki Toson is an incredibly interesting Japanese writer who had a fascinating life . Hope to read and import more of his work in the future. read more about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dson_Shimazaki Tōson was born in what is now part of the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture and spent his childhood in the old post town of Magome-juku in the countryside of the Kiso District, which he left in 1881. He subsequently wrote about many aspects of life in this area, including in his most famous novel Before the Dawn, which was modeled on the life of his father, Shimazaki Masaki, who went insane and died by the time Tōson was fourteen, leading to Tōson being raised by friends of his family. Later, his oldest sister would also die from mental disorders. Tōson later described his nature as "melancholy inherited from my parents."