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 and to adopt European authors' techniques in order to westernize Japanese literature and reflect the true feelings of the author. Katai executed this literary theory in, or , as mentioned in his essay "My Anna Mahr;" he conceived the idea after reading Gerhart Hauptmann's , or.

Despite the evidence of Katai's essay suggesting that was patterned after Hauptmann's, scholars and critics had given relatively little attention to the comparative aspects of this work. Up to now the attention received by has dealt mainly with its biographical allusions and historical meanings relating to other authors. With the appearance of, or , by the critic Nakamura Mitsuo, it became evident what Katai had adopted from in. Dr. Nakamura states:

"First of all what becomes clear after reading and from Katai's above cited statement is that he was inspired by and imitated Johannes who was portrayed in the drama, but it was not Hauptmann who wrote this drama."

But Dr. Nakamura's criticism of fails to show the relationship between  and, despite the fact that