Mori is one of the great Japanese literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th century his youth is dominated by education in the Japanese, Chinese, and Western traditions, and the acquisition of a number of languages. worked as an army surgeon trod the path toward leadership as a high official,was the son of the domain physician, expected to become a doctor in his turn, and he received special education from an early age worked as an army surgeon, and made his literary deute