“A Japanese poet simply depicts a crow sitting on a withered branch, and leaves it to the reader to complete the poetic thought.”
About Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944
Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born on 8 November 1867 on the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, a narrow strip of land that for generations had been Japan’s only window onto the West. His father, Carl Herman Oskar Hartmann, was a Prussian merchant trading in that tightly regulated enclave; his mother…