Representation of Crimea in Late 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; and Early 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Century Japanese Literature and Philosophy: Lev Tolstoy's &lt;i&gt;Sevastopol Sketches&lt;/i&gt; and Its Legacy
Journal: Japanese Slavic and East European Studies
Year: 2010

As the influence of Lev Tolstoy on Japanese culture was most profoundly represented by the Shirakaba humanists and the [Ihisho democrats, 'folstoy' in Japan is normally recognized as a paragon of liberal pacifism. In the ea'rly days of the reception of his works in the first few decades of the Meiji period, however, he was better knQwn as a mil'itary wr'iter, author of stories about battles and wars. ln 1887 VPlar and Pteaee was transl ated as NbkuO kessen no yojin (The Afternnath ofthe Bleody B