Shiga Naoya was born on February 20, 1883, in the town of Ishimaki on Honshu, Japan’s largest island. Although his family belonged to the prestigious samurai class, his father became a successful businessman and moved the family to Tokyo when Shiga was three. In Tokyo, they lived with Shiga’s grandparents, who were largely responsible for raising the young writer. Shiga’s mother died when he was thirteen, and his father remarried not long after. Fortunately, Shiga had a good relationship with his new stepmother, which he wrote about in the story ‘‘Haha no hi to atarashii...
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