Aesthetics. In 1900, Ministry of Education selected Chogyū to study in Europe together with Natsume Sōseki with a position at Kyoto Imperial University waiting for him on his return, but he developed tuberculosis and declined. During his convalescence, he wrote articles praising Friedrich Nietzsche and on aesthetics. In 1901, Chogyū became a professor at Toyo University. Teaching one day a week, he devoted most of his time to writing. In 1902, he received a doctorate in literature from Tokyo Imperial University, writing about Asuka period art. The work left him exhausted. Health decline and death As sea air was thought to be helpful for lung ailments, Chogyū moved from Tokyo to the seaside resort towns of Atami, Shimizu, Oiso, and finally to Kamakura in an effort to cure his disease. With the likelihood of recovery increasingly remote, he turned his attention the teachings of the 13th-century Buddhist leader Nichiren. He continued to write, but on religious philosophy, especially Nichirenism. However, his condition worsened and he died on 24 December 1902 at a hospital in nearby Chigasaki. He lived in a house within the precincts of Kamakura's Hase-dera during the last year of his life, and his funeral rites were at the temple. His grave is located at Ryuge-ji, a temple in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. The inscription on the grave is from one of his writings: "Obviously we should transcend the present." Although Chogyū's literary career spanned a mere six years, he had a major impact on other Japanese writers; he is largely unknown outside Japan. References Gluck, Carol, Japan's Modern Myths. Princeton University Press (1987). Suzuki, Tomi, Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity. Stanford University Press (1997). . Marra, Michael, A history of modern Japanese aesthetics. University of Hawaii Press (2001). Parkes, Graham, Nietzsche and Asian Thought. University of Chicago Press (1996). Zachmann, Urs Matthias, China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity Routledge (2010) External links e-texts of works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese site) Chogyu’s monumental grave at Ryuge-ji (Japanese site) 1871 births 1902 deaths 19th-century Japanese novelists Japanese non-fiction writers People from Yamagata Prefecture Writers from Yamagata Prefecture People of Meiji-period Japan 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis University of Tokyo alumni Tuberculosis deaths in Japan Pan-Asianists