A bust of a Japanese anatomy teacher who was Chinese author Lu Xun's mentor was unveiled Tuesday in a Beijing museum dedicated to modern China's best-known and most important author — 103 years after the two first met in a medical school in Sendai.
Lu Xun (1881-1936), whose real name was Zhou Shuren, studied at Sendai Medical School, now the medical school of Tohoku University, from September 1904 to March 1906, and there met anatomy teacher Genkuro Fujino (1874-1945). Recalling his dedicated mentor, Lu Xun later described Fujino as one of the people who had moved and encouraged him the most.
When Lu Xun left the school, Fujino gave him a photograph of himself with the words "Sekibetsu (the sorrow of parting), Fujino," on the back.